From 0eeca28300df110bd6ed54b31193c83b87921443 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Love Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 17:06:03 -0400 Subject: [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 Cc: John McCutchan Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/sched.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/sched.h') diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index ff48815bd3a..dec5827c774 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -410,6 +410,10 @@ struct user_struct { atomic_t processes; /* How many processes does this user have? */ atomic_t files; /* How many open files does this user have? */ atomic_t sigpending; /* How many pending signals does this user have? */ +#ifdef CONFIG_INOTIFY + atomic_t inotify_watches; /* How many inotify watches does this user have? */ + atomic_t inotify_devs; /* How many inotify devs does this user have opened? */ +#endif /* protected by mq_lock */ unsigned long mq_bytes; /* How many bytes can be allocated to mqueue? */ unsigned long locked_shm; /* How many pages of mlocked shm ? */ -- cgit v1.2.3