From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Juergen Hasch <lkml@elbonia.de>
Cc: Michael Welles <mike@bangstate.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using get_cwd inside a module.
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 10:15:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031122101559.A30932@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200311221033.35108.lkml@elbonia.de>; from lkml@elbonia.de on Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 10:33:34AM +0100
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 10:33:34AM +0100, Juergen Hasch wrote:
> Am Samstag, 22. November 2003 09:30 schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
> > The basic problem is that you shouldn't call syscalls from kernelspace.
> > Have you looked at dnotify to look for changed files instead?
>
> Dnotify doesn't return the file names that changed, changedfiles does.
> I've looked into this, because Samba would benefit from such a functionality.
>
> So maybe it would be possible to teach dnotify to return file names
> (e.g. using netlink) ?
Well, you can't return filenames. There's no unique path to a give
file.
What are the exact requirements of changedfiles or samba?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-22 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-22 0:05 Michael Welles
2003-11-22 0:32 ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2003-11-22 12:30 ` Szymon Acedański
2003-11-22 8:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-11-22 9:33 ` Juergen Hasch
2003-11-22 10:15 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-11-22 10:45 ` Juergen Hasch
2003-11-22 11:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-11-22 17:22 ` Michael Welles
2003-11-23 19:40 ` Juergen Hasch
2003-11-22 11:48 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-11-23 19:41 ` Juergen Hasch
2003-11-22 17:15 ` Michael Welles
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