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.
next prev 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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