Hi,
On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 07:04:13PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> How come? In current kernel the call looks like:
>
> vfs_mknod(d_inode(path.dentry), dentry, mode, dev->devt);
>
> so the path is available there... I've actually quickly checked all
> vfs_mknod() callers and they all seem to have p
On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 11:19:43AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> However if you can really call fsnotify hooks with 'path' available in all
> the places, it should be equally hard to just pass 'path' to
> vfs_(create|mkdir|...) and that way we don't have to sprinkle fsnotify
> calls into several call si
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 01:18:01PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> I claim that fanotify filters event by mount not because it
> was a requirement, but because it was an implementation challenge
> to do otherwise.
>
> And I claim that what mount watchers are really interested in is
> "all the c
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 03:55:19PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> Please let me know if that is sufficient for your needs
> or if you need me to prepare a version that delivers filename events
> without filename info, therefore allowing to merge filename events.
>
> Sounds to me like if you g
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 12:40:56PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> An I am very happy that you used filehandles to keep track of objects
> in your example, because it fits my proposal really well.
you can read more about the rationales in the WIP draft of my thesis
(especially the chapter Iden
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 12:11:40PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> > - file system indexers / desktop search tools
> > - file synchronization tools (like Dropbox, Nextcloud, etc.),
> > online backup tools
>
> This last one is the use case of my employer, Ctera Networks.
> Out of curios
An example userspace program that uses FAN_MODIFY_DIR to reliably keep
an up-to-date internal representation of the file system. It uses some
filehandle trickery to identify inodes, other heuristics could be also
used.
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//#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#
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Signed-off-by: Filip Štědronský
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An alternative might be to create wrapper functions like
vfs_path_(rename|unlink|...). They could also take care of calling
security_path_(rename|unlink|...), which is currently also up to
the indvidual callers (possibly with a flag because it might no
ations on a directory (e.g. deleting all files).
Signed-off-by: Filip Štědronský
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An alternative might be to create wrapper functions like
vfs_path_(rename|unlink|...). They could also take care of calling
security_path_(rename|unlink|...), which is currently also up to
the indvidual caller
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