[PATCH] inotify (4/5): allow watch removal from event handler
Allow callers to remove watches from their event handler via
inotify_remove_watch_locked(). This functionality can be used to
achieve IN_ONESHOT-like functionality for a subset of events in the
mask.
Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>
Acked-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Acked-by: John McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/include/linux/inotify.h b/include/linux/inotify.h
index e7e7fb7..d4f48c6 100644
--- a/include/linux/inotify.h
+++ b/include/linux/inotify.h
@@ -122,6 +122,8 @@
struct inode *, __u32);
extern int inotify_rm_watch(struct inotify_handle *, struct inotify_watch *);
extern int inotify_rm_wd(struct inotify_handle *, __u32);
+extern void inotify_remove_watch_locked(struct inotify_handle *,
+ struct inotify_watch *);
extern void get_inotify_watch(struct inotify_watch *);
extern void put_inotify_watch(struct inotify_watch *);
@@ -205,6 +207,11 @@
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
}
+static inline void inotify_remove_watch_locked(struct inotify_handle *ih,
+ struct inotify_watch *watch)
+{
+}
+
static inline void get_inotify_watch(struct inotify_watch *watch)
{
}