[PATCH] inotify: add two inotify_add_watch flags
The below patch lets userspace have more control over the inodes that
inotify will watch. It introduces two new flags.
IN_ONLYDIR -- only watch the inode if it is a directory.
This is needed to avoid the race that can occur when we want to be
sure that we are watching a directory.
IN_DONT_FOLLOW -- don't follow a symlink. In combination
with IN_ONLYDIR we can make sure that we don't watch the target of
symlinks.
The issues the flags fix came up when writing the gnome-vfs inotify
backend. Default behaviour is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Acked-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/inotify.h b/include/linux/inotify.h
index ee5b239..267c88b 100644
--- a/include/linux/inotify.h
+++ b/include/linux/inotify.h
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@
#define IN_MOVE (IN_MOVED_FROM | IN_MOVED_TO) /* moves */
/* 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_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 */