On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 07:39:45PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> The how about an inotify_init1 flag telling the kernel to ignore
> changes done by the current PID? That sounds like it is potentially
> useful to other applications that want to monitor the whole file system
> and also write to it. It also doesn't need to change the ABI in
> incompatible ways or introduce a security relevant side channel.

That's a good idea. Robert, John, Michael - comments?

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        Evgeniy Polyakov
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