linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] quota: Implement sending information via netlink about user below quota

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Date:	Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:14:46 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Vladislav Bogdanov <slava@...s.by>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] quota: Implement sending information via netlink about
 user below quota

On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:34:31 +0200 Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> wrote:

> 
> Sometimes it may be useful for userspace to know (e.g. for some hosting guys)
> that some user stopped exceeding his hardlimit or softlimit in quotas.
> Implement sending of such events to userspace via quota netlink protocol so
> that they don't have to poll for such events. Based on idea and initial
> implementation by Vladislav Bogdanov <slava@...s.by>.

Documentation/filesystems/quota.txt will need an update.
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