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authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2009-05-21 17:01:26 -0400
committerEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2009-06-11 14:57:53 -0400
commit3be25f49b9d6a97eae9bcb96d3292072b7658bd8 (patch)
tree36f7d96481a47a6bde3c2f961346e940698111e0 /include/linux/fs.h
parent90586523eb4b349806887c62ee70685a49415124 (diff)
fsnotify: add marks to inodes so groups can interpret how to handle those inodes
This patch creates a way for fsnotify groups to attach marks to inodes. These marks have little meaning to the generic fsnotify infrastructure and thus their meaning should be interpreted by the group that attached them to the inode's list. dnotify and inotify will make use of these markings to indicate which inodes are of interest to their respective groups. But this implementation has the useful property that in the future other listeners could actually use the marks for the exact opposite reason, aka to indicate which inodes it had NO interest in. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 83d6b439724..275b0860044 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -755,6 +755,11 @@ struct inode {
__u32 i_generation;
+#ifdef CONFIG_FSNOTIFY
+ __u32 i_fsnotify_mask; /* all events this inode cares about */
+ struct hlist_head i_fsnotify_mark_entries; /* fsnotify mark entries */
+#endif
+
#ifdef CONFIG_DNOTIFY
unsigned long i_dnotify_mask; /* Directory notify events */
struct dnotify_struct *i_dnotify; /* for directory notifications */