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docs: filesystems: convert inotify.txt to ReST
- Add a SPDX header; - Add a document title; - Adjust document title; - Fix list markups; - Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks; - Add it to filesystems/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8f846843ecf1914988feb4d001e3a53d27dc1a65.1581955849.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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hfs
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hfs
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hfsplus
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hpfs
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inotify
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fuse
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overlayfs
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inotify
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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a powerful yet simple file change notification system
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Inotify - A Powerful yet Simple File Change Notification System
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Document started 15 Mar 2005 by Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
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Document started 15 Mar 2005 by Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
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Document updated 4 Jan 2015 by Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com>
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Document updated 4 Jan 2015 by Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com>
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--Deleted obsoleted interface, just refer to manpages for user interface.
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- Deleted obsoleted interface, just refer to manpages for user interface.
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(i) Rationale
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(i) Rationale
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Q: What is the design decision behind not tying the watch to the open fd of
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Q:
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What is the design decision behind not tying the watch to the open fd of
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the watched object?
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the watched object?
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A: Watches are associated with an open inotify device, not an open file.
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Watches are associated with an open inotify device, not an open file.
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This solves the primary problem with dnotify: keeping the file open pins
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This solves the primary problem with dnotify: keeping the file open pins
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the file and thus, worse, pins the mount. Dnotify is therefore infeasible
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the file and thus, worse, pins the mount. Dnotify is therefore infeasible
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for use on a desktop system with removable media as the media cannot be
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for use on a desktop system with removable media as the media cannot be
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unmounted. Watching a file should not require that it be open.
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unmounted. Watching a file should not require that it be open.
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Q: What is the design decision behind using an-fd-per-instance as opposed to
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What is the design decision behind using an-fd-per-instance as opposed to
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an fd-per-watch?
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an fd-per-watch?
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A: An fd-per-watch quickly consumes more file descriptors than are allowed,
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A:
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An fd-per-watch quickly consumes more file descriptors than are allowed,
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more fd's than are feasible to manage, and more fd's than are optimally
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more fd's than are feasible to manage, and more fd's than are optimally
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select()-able. Yes, root can bump the per-process fd limit and yes, users
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select()-able. Yes, root can bump the per-process fd limit and yes, users
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can use epoll, but requiring both is a silly and extraneous requirement.
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can use epoll, but requiring both is a silly and extraneous requirement.
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need not be a one-fd-per-process mapping; it is one-fd-per-queue and a
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need not be a one-fd-per-process mapping; it is one-fd-per-queue and a
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process can easily want more than one queue.
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process can easily want more than one queue.
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Q: Why the system call approach?
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Why the system call approach?
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A: The poor user-space interface is the second biggest problem with dnotify.
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The poor user-space interface is the second biggest problem with dnotify.
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Signals are a terrible, terrible interface for file notification. Or for
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Signals are a terrible, terrible interface for file notification. Or for
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anything, for that matter. The ideal solution, from all perspectives, is a
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anything, for that matter. The ideal solution, from all perspectives, is a
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file descriptor-based one that allows basic file I/O and poll/select.
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file descriptor-based one that allows basic file I/O and poll/select.
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