[PATCH] fsnotify_name/inoderemove
authorJohn McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:52:16 +0000 (13:52 -0400)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Mon, 8 Aug 2005 18:53:47 +0000 (11:53 -0700)
commit7a91bf7f5c22c8407a9991cbd9ce5bb87caa6b4a
treeffd77cfbf621a990052c1277d8a18451b9363dda
parent1963c907b21e140082d081b1c8f8c2154593c7d7
[PATCH] fsnotify_name/inoderemove

The patch below unhooks fsnotify from vfs_unlink & vfs_rmdir.  It
introduces two new fsnotify calls, that are hooked in at the dcache
level.  This not only more closely matches how the VFS layer works, it
also avoids the problem with locking and inode lifetimes.

The two functions are

 - fsnotify_nameremove -- called when a directory entry is going away.
   It notifies the PARENT of the deletion.  This is called from
   d_delete().

 - inoderemove -- called when the files inode itself is going away.  It
   notifies the inode that is being deleted.  This is called from
   dentry_iput().

Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
fs/dcache.c
fs/namei.c
include/linux/fsnotify.h