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Watching filesystem events with inotify

Watching filesystem events with inotify

Posted Jun 21, 2005 18:02 UTC (Tue) by stevef (subscriber, #7712)
Parent article: Watching filesystem events with inotify

file/directory change notification would be particularly useful on network files (remote files accessed through network filesystems such as nfs or cifs, or cluster filesystems). The current D_NOTIFY fcntl can be intercepted by a filesystem.

Can filesystems intercept inotify?


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