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| author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2007-06-07 12:22:59 -0400 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2007-10-21 02:37:38 -0400 |
| commit | 455434d450a358ac5bcf3fc58f8913d13c544622 (patch) | |
| tree | 78cf10eabc7ed50a0b84da6b8c84c4313ea1f170 | |
| parent | b9efe8a234ad874a049460417c54680338f96360 (diff) | |
| download | linux-455434d450a358ac5bcf3fc58f8913d13c544622.tar.bz2 | |
[PATCH] new helper - inotify_evict_watch()
Kicks the watch out without dropping it. Called under ->inotify_mutex
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/inotify.c | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/inotify.h | 1 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/inotify.c b/fs/inotify.c index 4b2469bb6554..2c5b92152876 100644 --- a/fs/inotify.c +++ b/fs/inotify.c @@ -701,6 +701,14 @@ out: return ret; } +void inotify_evict_watch(struct inotify_watch *watch) +{ + get_inotify_watch(watch); + mutex_lock(&watch->ih->mutex); + inotify_remove_watch_locked(watch->ih, watch); + mutex_unlock(&watch->ih->mutex); +} + /** * inotify_rm_wd - remove a watch from an inotify instance * @ih: inotify handle diff --git a/include/linux/inotify.h b/include/linux/inotify.h index e76e2272e2ab..742b917e7d1b 100644 --- a/include/linux/inotify.h +++ b/include/linux/inotify.h @@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ extern __s32 inotify_find_update_watch(struct inotify_handle *, struct inode *, extern __s32 inotify_add_watch(struct inotify_handle *, struct inotify_watch *, struct inode *, __u32); extern __s32 inotify_clone_watch(struct inotify_watch *, struct inotify_watch *); +extern void inotify_evict_watch(struct inotify_watch *); extern int inotify_rm_watch(struct inotify_handle *, struct inotify_watch *); extern int inotify_rm_wd(struct inotify_handle *, __u32); extern void inotify_remove_watch_locked(struct inotify_handle *, |