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SubjectRe: File change notification
Rüdiger Klaehn wrote:

> I have been wondering for some time why there is no decent file change
> notification mechanism in linux. Is there some deep philosophical reason
> for this, or is it just that nobody has found the time to implement it?
> If it is the latter, I am willing to implement it as long there is a
> chance to get this accepted into the mainstream kernel.

Well, there's fam. But AFAIK that's all done in user space, and your
approach would be significantly more efficient (as a matter of fact, fam
could be modified to use your change device as a first level of
notification.)

I'll be interested in testing this, or (if you wish) help get it done.
I'm a kernel hacking newbie at the moment, but I have tinkered around
enough with the VFS to be able to work on this. Up to you.

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Javier Fernandez-Ivern
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