From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753867AbYKLQv3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:51:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752174AbYKLQu7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:50:59 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:47971 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751839AbYKLQu6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:50:58 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:50:55 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Eric Paris Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, malware-list@lists.printk.net, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, arjan@infradead.org, greg@kroah.com, tytso@mit.edu, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH =-v3 07/21] fanotify: fastpath to ignore certain in core inodes Message-ID: <20081112165055.GB19669@infradead.org> References: <20081112161002.25434.82358.stgit@paris.rdu.redhat.com> <20081112161103.25434.30104.stgit@paris.rdu.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081112161103.25434.30104.stgit@paris.rdu.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:11:03AM -0500, Eric Paris wrote: > Allows a process to ignore certain events for the given in core inodes. > This does not preclude the need to keep a userspace or xattr based > cache if a fanotifier listener wants something with a different lifetime > than in core inode. Please just do this in userspace instead of bloating the inode.