Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:30:10 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Use of kqueue/kevent NOTE_EXTEND fflag in VFS Message-ID: <eqc673$v2k$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <45C8DD5F.3000907@xbsd.org> References: <45C8DD5F.3000907@xbsd.org>
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Florent Thoumie wrote:
> I'd like to use NOTE_EXTEND in the following cases: create, link, mkdir,
> mknod, rename, symlink for the parent vnode or the destination parent
> vnode (in the rename case).
>
> The rationale is that there's no way (or I don't see it) to know if a
> file/directory is removed or created when monitoring a directory. Using
> NOTE_EXTEND in the sense of "there's more files/directories" makes it
> possible to distinguish both cases.
>
> Another possibility could be to create new flags that would be the
> equivalent of IN_{CREATE,DELETE}_{FILE,SUBDIR}.
>
> Any thoughts?
I'd welcome it because I have several ideas that would benefit from such
thing. Separate "notes" for CREATE/DELETE (issued on a directory vnode,
right?) would be better than single "extend" note.
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