fanotify enlightenment

Belisko Marek marek.belisko at gmail.com
Wed Mar 16 01:23:33 EDT 2011


Hi,

please don't bottom post ;)

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:50 AM, vinit dhatrak <vinit.dhatrak at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Belisko Marek <marek.belisko at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Is there possibility to get some actual Documentation about fanotify
>> interface
>> (most of google results point to obsolete socket interface). I'm trying to
>> use
>> this (http://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/fanotify-example.git) example.
>>
>> Use 2.6.37 kernel with fanotify enabled trying to track file changes in my
>> directory but no results when create new file of modify existing.
>>
>> Works only if point to existing file.
>>
>> Try sudo ./fanotify -o modify,open,close,access /home/* (end with
>> Invalid argument)
>> also without * at the end doesn't help.
>>
>> Any ideas why?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Marek Belisko
>> --
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>
> Hi Belisko,
> Did you find any documentation/ sample programs related to fanotify. I also
> wanted to know about these new APIs.
Well no documentation could be found anywhere. Maybe need to wait some time
when will be put to kernel Documentation.
> -Vinit

good luck,

marek


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Freelance Developer

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