From 8c1934c8d70b22ca8333b216aec6c7d09fdbd6a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Paris Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:18:37 -0400 Subject: inotify: allow users to request not to recieve events on unlinked children An inotify watch on a directory will send events for children even if those children have been unlinked. This patch add a new inotify flag IN_EXCL_UNLINK which allows a watch to specificy they don't care about unlinked children. This should fix performance problems seen by tasks which add a watch to /tmp and then are overrun with events when other processes are reading and writing to unlinked files they created in /tmp. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16296 Requested-by: Matthias Clasen Signed-off-by: Eric Paris --- fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c') diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c index f381daf..dfc80f7 100644 --- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c +++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ static inline __u32 inotify_arg_to_mask(u32 arg) mask = (FS_IN_IGNORED | FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD | FS_UNMOUNT); /* mask off the flags used to open the fd */ - mask |= (arg & (IN_ALL_EVENTS | IN_ONESHOT)); + mask |= (arg & (IN_ALL_EVENTS | IN_ONESHOT | IN_EXCL_UNLINK)); return mask; } -- cgit v1.1