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linux/kernel/sys_ni.c
Robert Love 0eeca28300 [PATCH] inotify
inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly
its inability to scale and its terrible user interface:

        * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory
          that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many
          open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.
        * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to
          directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects
          the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of
          stat structures.
        * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful.  Signals?

inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change
notification:

        * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.
	  You get a single fd, which is select()-able.
        * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item
          you were watching is on was unmounted."
        * inotify can watch directories or files.

Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),
Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.

See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 20:38:38 -07:00

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#include <linux/linkage.h>
#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <asm/unistd.h>
/*
* Non-implemented system calls get redirected here.
*/
asmlinkage long sys_ni_syscall(void)
{
return -ENOSYS;
}
cond_syscall(sys_nfsservctl);
cond_syscall(sys_quotactl);
cond_syscall(sys_acct);
cond_syscall(sys_lookup_dcookie);
cond_syscall(sys_swapon);
cond_syscall(sys_swapoff);
cond_syscall(sys_kexec_load);
cond_syscall(compat_sys_kexec_load);
cond_syscall(sys_init_module);
cond_syscall(sys_delete_module);
cond_syscall(sys_socketpair);
cond_syscall(sys_bind);
cond_syscall(sys_listen);
cond_syscall(sys_accept);
cond_syscall(sys_connect);
cond_syscall(sys_getsockname);
cond_syscall(sys_getpeername);
cond_syscall(sys_sendto);
cond_syscall(sys_send);
cond_syscall(sys_recvfrom);
cond_syscall(sys_recv);
cond_syscall(sys_socket);
cond_syscall(sys_setsockopt);
cond_syscall(sys_getsockopt);
cond_syscall(sys_shutdown);
cond_syscall(sys_sendmsg);
cond_syscall(sys_recvmsg);
cond_syscall(sys_socketcall);
cond_syscall(sys_futex);
cond_syscall(compat_sys_futex);
cond_syscall(sys_epoll_create);
cond_syscall(sys_epoll_ctl);
cond_syscall(sys_epoll_wait);
cond_syscall(sys_semget);
cond_syscall(sys_semop);
cond_syscall(sys_semtimedop);
cond_syscall(sys_semctl);
cond_syscall(sys_msgget);
cond_syscall(sys_msgsnd);
cond_syscall(sys_msgrcv);
cond_syscall(sys_msgctl);
cond_syscall(sys_shmget);
cond_syscall(sys_shmat);
cond_syscall(sys_shmdt);
cond_syscall(sys_shmctl);
cond_syscall(sys_mq_open);
cond_syscall(sys_mq_unlink);
cond_syscall(sys_mq_timedsend);
cond_syscall(sys_mq_timedreceive);
cond_syscall(sys_mq_notify);
cond_syscall(sys_mq_getsetattr);
cond_syscall(compat_sys_mq_open);
cond_syscall(compat_sys_mq_timedsend);
cond_syscall(compat_sys_mq_timedreceive);
cond_syscall(compat_sys_mq_notify);
cond_syscall(compat_sys_mq_getsetattr);
cond_syscall(sys_mbind);
cond_syscall(sys_get_mempolicy);
cond_syscall(sys_set_mempolicy);
cond_syscall(compat_sys_mbind);
cond_syscall(compat_sys_get_mempolicy);
cond_syscall(compat_sys_set_mempolicy);
cond_syscall(sys_add_key);
cond_syscall(sys_request_key);
cond_syscall(sys_keyctl);
cond_syscall(compat_sys_keyctl);
cond_syscall(compat_sys_socketcall);
cond_syscall(sys_set_zone_reclaim);
cond_syscall(sys_inotify_init);
cond_syscall(sys_inotify_add_watch);
cond_syscall(sys_inotify_rm_watch);
/* arch-specific weak syscall entries */
cond_syscall(sys_pciconfig_read);
cond_syscall(sys_pciconfig_write);
cond_syscall(sys_pciconfig_iobase);
cond_syscall(sys32_ipc);
cond_syscall(sys32_sysctl);
cond_syscall(ppc_rtas);