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From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 14:34:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <07250F7A-39A9-4417-A0E8-CBCD4E8CDDC6@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1273042474.20354.17.camel@localhost>


On 5 May 2010, at 07:54, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> ...
> I'm looking for some kernel-based notification of changes to my file
> system.  I've been looking at inotify, but it's not exactly what I  
> want.
>
> Basically I want to know if _any_ write occurs anywhere.  I don't want
> to register a whole bunch of files to watch, I just want to watch an
> entire mount.

man inotify(7):
... When a directory is monitored, inotify will return events for the  
directory itself, and for files inside the directory.


Am I missing something?


This article was posted to a different froup recently:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-inotify/index.html
It looks interesting.


Stroller.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-05 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-05  6:54 [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes Iain Buchanan
2010-05-05  7:12 ` Bill Kenworthy
2010-05-05 23:29   ` Iain Buchanan
2010-05-05 23:33     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-05-05 23:51       ` Iain Buchanan
2010-05-05 23:59         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-05-05 13:34 ` Stroller [this message]
2010-05-05 17:24   ` Florian Philipp
2010-05-05 17:35     ` Stroller
2010-05-05 23:51       ` Iain Buchanan
2010-05-06 14:22         ` Stroller
2010-05-05 15:02 ` Helmut Jarausch
2010-05-05 23:24   ` Iain Buchanan
2010-05-06  2:17     ` Iain Buchanan

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