Re: [take 3] Use pid in inotify events.
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From: Evgeniy Polyakov <hidden>
Date: 2008-11-24 07:30:33
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Hi John. On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 09:08:05PM -0800, John McCutchan (john-jueV0HHMeujJJrXXpGQQMAC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org) wrote:
At this point I don't really want to see changes made to inotify. But,
for arguments sake, why not something like inotify_init1 that takes a
flag EXTENDED_EVENT which causes a larger event structure to be used.
Something like,
struct inotify_event_extended
{
s32 wd;
u32 mask;
u32 cookie;
u32 data[4];
char path[0];
}
The data array could be used to store arbitrary extra information,
specified by flags.What will happen when above array is not enough to store needed info? Although I do not see any reason to send start/offset for the IO itself, but if it will be decided to do so, above array already is not large enough. I think I will cook up preliminary patch to add nested attributes into event structure like I described previously in the thread to get people involved with working example. -- Evgeniy Polyakov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html