tree 25fffb46e0b1594aa692ed10e755b6ae041022bc
parent 611da04f7a31b2208e838be55a42c7a1310ae321
author Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> 1280326717 -0400
committer Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> 1280326729 -0400

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

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>