Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Extend fanotify dirent events
From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Date: 2021-11-20 12:59:31
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On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 9:17 AM Amir Goldstein [off-list ref] wrote:
Jan, This is the 2nd version of FAN_REPORT_TARGET_FID patches [1]. In the first version, extra info records about new and old parent+name were added to FAN_MOVED_FROM event. This version uses a new event FAN_RENAME instead, to report those extra info records. The new FAN_RENAME event was designed as a replacement for the "inotify way" of joining the MOVED_FROM/MOVED_TO events using a cookie. FAN_RENAME event differs from MOVED_FROM/MOVED_TO events in several ways: 1) The information about old/new names is provided in a single event 2) When added to the ignored mask of a directory, FAN_RENAME is not reported for renames to and from that directory The group flag FAN_REPORT_TARGET_FID adds an extra info record of the child fid to all the dirent events, including FAN_REANME. It is independent of the FAN_RENAME changes and implemented in the first patch, so it can be picked regardless of the FAN_RENAME patches. Patches [2] and LTP test [3] are available on my github. A man page draft will be provided later on. Thanks, Amir. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20211029114028.569755-1-amir73il@gmail.com/ (local) [2] https://github.com/amir73il/linux/commits/fan_rename [3] https://github.com/amir73il/ltp/commits/fan_rename
Here is a first man page draft [4]. It based on top of both FAN_REPORT_PIDFD and FAN_FS_ERROR patches. I did not elaborate about the new info types yet in fanotify.7, because Matthew was going to rephrase the entire section about fanotify_event_info_header. Thanks, Amir. [4] https://github.com/amir73il/man-pages/commits/fan_rename