[PATCH] inotify

inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly
its inability to scale and its terrible user interface:

        * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory
          that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many
          open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.
        * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to
          directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects
          the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of
          stat structures.
        * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful.  Signals?

inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change
notification:

        * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.
	  You get a single fd, which is select()-able.
        * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item
          you were watching is on was unmounted."
        * inotify can watch directories or files.

Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),
Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.

See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/compat.c b/fs/compat.c
index 728cd8365384..6b06b6bae35e 100644
--- a/fs/compat.c
+++ b/fs/compat.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 #include <linux/ctype.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/dirent.h>
-#include <linux/dnotify.h>
+#include <linux/fsnotify.h>
 #include <linux/highuid.h>
 #include <linux/sunrpc/svc.h>
 #include <linux/nfsd/nfsd.h>
@@ -1307,9 +1307,13 @@ static ssize_t compat_do_readv_writev(int type, struct file *file,
 out:
         if (iov != iovstack)
                 kfree(iov);
-        if ((ret + (type == READ)) > 0)
-                dnotify_parent(file->f_dentry,
-                                (type == READ) ? DN_ACCESS : DN_MODIFY);
+        if ((ret + (type == READ)) > 0) {
+                struct dentry *dentry = file->f_dentry;
+                if (type == READ)
+                        fsnotify_access(dentry);
+                else
+                        fsnotify_modify(dentry);
+        }
         return ret;
 }