inotify is pretty much limited. I have great hopes in fanotify but I don't see much informations about it in the wild.
2010/7/7 <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> > On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:42:08 +0800, supercodeing35271 supercodeing35271 > said: > > I am now thinking on monitor the filesystem in linux, for this reason > > the inotify is a good way.But the problem is that what i want to do is > > not only monitor but a handle.This situation is like that a file in > > system has been changed unusually,now the inotity could tell me this > > but i want to intercept the change before the file been changed. > > So does anyone could give me a help on HOWTO? > > Eric Paris's fanotify patches look likely to make an appearance in the > 2.6.36 > kernel: > > config FANOTIFY > bool "Filesystem wide access notification" > select FSNOTIFY > select ANON_INODES > default y > ---help--- > Say Y here to enable fanotify suport. fanotify is a file access > notification system which differs from inotify in that it sends > and open file descriptor to the userspace listener along with > the event. > > If unsure, say Y. > > config FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS > bool "fanotify permissions checking" > depends on FANOTIFY > depends on SECURITY > default n > ---help--- > Say Y here is you want fanotify listeners to be able to make > permissions > decisions concerning filesystem events. This is used by some > fanotify > listeners which need to scan files before allowing the system > access to > use those files. This is used by some anti-malware vendors and > by some > hierarchical storage managent systems. > > If unsure, say N. > > Is that what you're looking for? > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ >
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