kernel/git/stable/linux.git/Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt, branch master

docs: filesystems: convert inotify.txt to ReST

2020-03-02T21:03:55+00:00

- Add a SPDX header; - Add a document title; - Adjust document title; - Fix list markups; - Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks; - Add it to filesystems/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Acked-by: Jan Kara Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8f846843ecf1914988feb4d001e3a53d27dc1a65.1581955849.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

inotify: update documentation to reflect code changes

2015-02-10T22:30:28+00:00

The inotify interface has changed a lot. The user interface was too old, and the kernel interface was removed by Eric Paris in commit: 2dfc1ca inotify: remove inotify in kernel interface. Signed-off-by: Zhang Zhen Cc: Wang Kai Cc: Eric Paris Cc: Robert Love Cc: John McCutchan Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt Acked-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation: fix inotify source file paths

2011-11-04T19:01:47+00:00

Fixes the path to find the source files of the inotify subsystem. Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] inotify (5/5): update kernel documentation

2006-06-20T09:25:19+00:00

Update kernel documentation to include a description of the inotify kernel API. Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis Acked-by: Robert Love Acked-by: John McCutchan Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[PATCH] inotify: documentation update

2005-07-15T16:54:51+00:00

Clean up and expand some of the inotify documentation. Signed-off-by: Robert Love Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] inotify

2005-07-13T03:38:38+00:00

inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly its inability to scale and its terrible user interface: * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount. * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of stat structures. * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful. Signals? inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change notification: * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO. You get a single fd, which is select()-able. * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item you were watching is on was unmounted." * inotify can watch directories or files. Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure), Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects. See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt. Signed-off-by: Robert Love Cc: John McCutchan Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds