linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] ftruncate, truncate: create fanotify events

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Date:	Mon, 10 Nov 2014 23:34:15 -0800
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@....de>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] ftruncate, truncate: create fanotify events

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 09:30:29PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
>   So what I somewhat dislike about this patch is that notify_change() is
> sometimes called with dentry and sometimes with path. That way it's not
> completely clear when fanotify events will be generated and when not.
> Sadly it isn't easy to provide struct path in all the places where we are
> calling notify_change() so I'm not sure what would a better solution look
> like either :(

I suspect the right thing to do is to split out the truncate path
from notify_change, as it's fairly different anyway.
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