[RFC][PATCH 00/10] Mount, FS, Block and Keyrings notifications [ver #3]

[David Howells]

Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net> wrote:

> I mean: are there cases where some action generates a notification but does
> not otherwise have an effect visible to the users who can receive the
> notification. It looks like the answer is probably “no”, which is good.

mount_notify().  You can get a notification that someone altered the mount
topology (eg. by mounting something).  A process receiving a notification
could then use fsinfo(), say, to reread the mount topology tree, find out
where the new mount is and wander over there to have a look - assuming they
have the permissions for pathwalk to succeed.

David