- Linux Directory Notification
- ============================
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+============================
+Linux Directory Notification
+============================
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
The application decides which "events" it wants to be notified about.
The currently defined events are:
+ ========= =====================================================
DN_ACCESS A file in the directory was accessed (read)
DN_MODIFY A file in the directory was modified (write,truncate)
DN_CREATE A file was created in the directory
DN_RENAME A file in the directory was renamed
DN_ATTRIB A file in the directory had its attributes
changed (chmod,chown)
+ ========= =====================================================
Usually, the application must reregister after each notification, but
if DN_MULTISHOT is or'ed with the event mask, then the registration will
is often blocked, so it is better to use (at least) SIGRTMIN + 1.
Implementation expectations (features and bugs :-))
----------------------------
+---------------------------------------------------
The notification should work for any local access to files even if the
actual file system is on a remote server. This implies that remote
R: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
L: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
S: Maintained
-F: Documentation/filesystems/dnotify.txt
+F: Documentation/filesystems/dnotify.rst
F: fs/notify/dnotify/
F: include/linux/dnotify.h