From 2d9048e201bfb67ba21f05e647b1286b8a4a5667 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amy Griffis Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 13:10:59 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] inotify (1/5): split kernel API from userspace support The following series of patches introduces a kernel API for inotify, making it possible for kernel modules to benefit from inotify's mechanism for watching inodes. With these patches, inotify will maintain for each caller a list of watches (via an embedded struct inotify_watch), where each inotify_watch is associated with a corresponding struct inode. The caller registers an event handler and specifies for which filesystem events their event handler should be called per inotify_watch. Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis Acked-by: Robert Love Acked-by: John McCutchan Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/Kconfig | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/Kconfig') diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig index f9b5842c8d2d..74f11a23622d 100644 --- a/fs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/Kconfig @@ -393,18 +393,30 @@ config INOTIFY bool "Inotify file change notification support" default y ---help--- - Say Y here to enable inotify support and the associated system - calls. Inotify is a file change notification system and a - replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes numerous shortcomings in - dnotify and introduces several new features. It allows monitoring - of both files and directories via a single open fd. Other features - include multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount + Say Y here to enable inotify support. Inotify is a file change + notification system and a replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes + numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several new features + including multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount notification. For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt If unsure, say Y. +config INOTIFY_USER + bool "Inotify support for userspace" + depends on INOTIFY + default y + ---help--- + Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the + associated system calls. Inotify allows monitoring of both files and + directories via a single open fd. Events are read from the file + descriptor, which is also select()- and poll()-able. + + For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt + + If unsure, say Y. + config QUOTA bool "Quota support" help -- cgit v1.2.3