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inotify: allow users to request not to recieve events on unlinked children

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An inotify watch on a directory will send events for children even if those
children have been unlinked.  This patch add a new inotify flag IN_EXCL_UNLINK
which allows a watch to specificy they don't care about unlinked children.
This should fix performance problems seen by tasks which add a watch to
/tmp and then are overrun with events when other processes are reading and
writing to unlinked files they created in /tmp.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16296

Requested-by: Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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Eric Paris 2010-07-28 10:18:37 -04:00
commit 8c1934c8d7
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@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ struct inotify_event {
/* special flags */
#define IN_ONLYDIR 0x01000000 /* only watch the path if it is a directory */
#define IN_DONT_FOLLOW 0x02000000 /* don't follow a sym link */
#define IN_EXCL_UNLINK 0x04000000 /* exclude events on unlinked objects */
#define IN_MASK_ADD 0x20000000 /* add to the mask of an already existing watch */
#define IN_ISDIR 0x40000000 /* event occurred against dir */
#define IN_ONESHOT 0x80000000 /* only send event once */