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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 10:23:11 +0100 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> To: Sergey <sergey@...mentaryos.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: A desktop environment[1] kernel wishlist On Tue 2014-10-21 13:11:07, Sergey wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I'm glad we're having some discussion on this, because we have almost > exactly the same kernel wishlist internally for elementary OS / Pantheon DE. > > I believe I can further elaborate on the VFS monitoring part. We need a file > monitoring facility that's scalable (unlike inotify) and can provide a > decent level of detail (unlike fanotify). In particular, we need to be able > to detect file/directory creation, renaming and removal events, as well as > close_write event. And, in an ideal world, all of that without requiring > root permissions. > > This can be almost accomplished by combining output of fanotify with that of > a custom LSM module that just reports events to userspace (e.g. rlocate uses > such a thing). There are two problems with this: first, it's a hideous hack, > and second, it doesn't detect deletions. And third, it will eat unbounded ammounts of memory, right? If "recursive mtime" was available, would that work for you? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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