Commit b31763cf authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab Committed by Jonathan Corbet

docs: filesystems: convert dnotify.txt to ReST

- Add a SPDX header;
- Add a document title;
- Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks;
- Add table markups;
- Add it to filesystems/index.rst
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b39d6430d1c28438e833f01cb4597eff78703c75.1588021877.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 01478b83
Linux Directory Notification
============================
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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Linux Directory Notification
============================
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
......@@ -12,6 +15,7 @@ being delivered using signals.
The application decides which "events" it wants to be notified about.
The currently defined events are:
========= =====================================================
DN_ACCESS A file in the directory was accessed (read)
DN_MODIFY A file in the directory was modified (write,truncate)
DN_CREATE A file was created in the directory
......@@ -19,6 +23,7 @@ The currently defined events are:
DN_RENAME A file in the directory was renamed
DN_ATTRIB A file in the directory had its attributes
changed (chmod,chown)
========= =====================================================
Usually, the application must reregister after each notification, but
if DN_MULTISHOT is or'ed with the event mask, then the registration will
......@@ -36,7 +41,7 @@ especially important if DN_MULTISHOT is specified. Note that SIGRTMIN
is often blocked, so it is better to use (at least) SIGRTMIN + 1.
Implementation expectations (features and bugs :-))
---------------------------
---------------------------------------------------
The notification should work for any local access to files even if the
actual file system is on a remote server. This implies that remote
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......@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ algorithms work.
locking
directory-locking
devpts
dnotify
automount-support
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......@@ -4996,7 +4996,7 @@ M: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
R: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
L: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
S: Maintained
F: Documentation/filesystems/dnotify.txt
F: Documentation/filesystems/dnotify.rst
F: fs/notify/dnotify/
F: include/linux/dnotify.h
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