Re: Looking for a file monitor

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 22:01 -0600, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote:
> Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > In-Reply-To: <43FF3C1C.5040200@gmail.com>
> > 
> > On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 at 11:02:20 -0600, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote:
> > 
> >> But if we want to keep a track of all the files that are opened, read, 
> >> written or deleted (much like filemon; ``Filemon's timestamping feature 
> >> will show you precisely when every open, read, write or delete, happens, 
> >> and its status column tells you the outcome."), we can write a simple 
> >> patch that makes a note of these events on the VFS layer, and then we 
> >> could export this information to userspace, via relayfs. It wouldn't be 
> >> too hard to code a relatively efficient implementation.
> > 
> >  Doesn't auditing do all this?
> 
> I have no idea about auditing, but I would guess it internally uses inotify.


it doesn't; it uses the audit framework which, by the way, exactly does
what the proposed patch above would do :)