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| author | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2010-07-28 10:18:37 -0400 |
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| committer | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2010-07-28 10:18:49 -0400 |
| commit | 8c1934c8d70b22ca8333b216aec6c7d09fdbd6a6 (patch) | |
| tree | 25fffb46e0b1594aa692ed10e755b6ae041022bc /include/linux/inotify.h | |
| parent | 611da04f7a31b2208e838be55a42c7a1310ae321 (diff) | |
inotify: allow users to request not to recieve events on unlinked children
An inotify watch on a directory will send events for children even if those
children have been unlinked. This patch add a new inotify flag IN_EXCL_UNLINK
which allows a watch to specificy they don't care about unlinked children.
This should fix performance problems seen by tasks which add a watch to
/tmp and then are overrun with events when other processes are reading and
writing to unlinked files they created in /tmp.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16296
Requested-by: Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/inotify.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/inotify.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/inotify.h b/include/linux/inotify.h index 94d209a1b689..b74f2ef2c368 100644 --- a/include/linux/inotify.h +++ b/include/linux/inotify.h @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ struct inotify_event { /* special flags */ #define IN_ONLYDIR 0x01000000 /* only watch the path if it is a directory */ #define IN_DONT_FOLLOW 0x02000000 /* don't follow a sym link */ +#define IN_EXCL_UNLINK 0x04000000 /* exclude events on unlinked objects */ #define IN_MASK_ADD 0x20000000 /* add to the mask of an already existing watch */ #define IN_ISDIR 0x40000000 /* event occurred against dir */ #define IN_ONESHOT 0x80000000 /* only send event once */ |