Re: Using get_cwd inside a module.

[Juergen Hasch <lkml@elbonia.de>]

Am Samstag, 22. November 2003 12:48 schrieb Andreas Dilger:
> On Nov 22, 2003  10:15 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 10:33:34AM +0100, Juergen Hasch wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Since the caller is already watching a specific directory, it doesn't
> need to know the full pathname, just the inode number that changed.
> Then Samba et. al. could do an inode->name(s) lookup on the directory.

As the kernel would need to communicate with userspace anyway, I believe
getting the file name directly from the kernel shouldn't be too much to
ask for. The kernel already knows it and we save the lookup operation in
userspace that is needed each time we receive an event.

However getting inode and event type would still be a huge improvement, 
because right now we have to stat all files in a directory and compare
it with a stored version, to find out what happend.

...Juergen