Re: [take 3] Use pid in inotify events.

[Evgeniy Polyakov]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 05:42:21PM +1030, David Newall (davidn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Why not require local access to use the same mechanism as remote, i.e.
> by "network mounting" the data on the local machine, too.  That way
> there's no confusion over where the change originated nor who's copy
> must be invalidated.

There is always a possibility that some application will access given
data directly and not via mounted partition, plus I have to patch
server's kernel with out of the tree modules, so intestead I could
implement lsm-based module to catch access and embed cache coherency
protocol there. Inotify in this case is the simplest approach.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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