Re: inotify, new idea?

From: Lennart Sorensen
Date: Sun Apr 20 2014 - 13:44:59 EST


On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 06:15:40AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> (One of us is misunderstanding fanotify; it might be me.)

No I think you are right, and that the misunderstanding is on my part.
I had not realized that fanotify did not provide create/delete events,
only access events.

> Did you look at fanotify closely? I don't think it could be used for
> this task -- does not notify linka dn unlink events, difficult to set
> up recursive monitoring, etc.

It would appear you are correct.

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Len Sorensen
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