Re: [patch] inotify, improved.

[email protected] wrote:

It's also racy as hell.  By the time the inotify gets delivered to the
userspace process, pid 820 may be long gone.....

Yep. But I can see uses for people to want to log all activity on specific directory trees. Think audit trails, etc.

Imagine root getting a log like:

Date: Jan 1,2006: file /foo/evidence.txt changed by user blah, pid <666>, commandline: "vi evidence.txt"

Chris
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