Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 2 authors, 2021-11-29

Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Extend fanotify dirent events

From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Date: 2021-11-20 12:59:31
Also in: linux-fsdevel

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
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