[RFC][PATCH] Inotify kernel API

[Chris Wright]

* Robert Love (rml at novell.com) wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 11:48 -0400, John McCutchan wrote:
> 
> > There is nothing in inotify_watch that is useful to other parts of the
> > kernel other than the inode, which will be passed to the callback.
> 
> Also, I don't see anything wrong with not exposing data structures and
> proving access only via abstracted interfaces.

There's no compelling reason (that I see), to make it typeless.  No need
to expose irrelevant internals, but should be simple enough to create
a data structure that's useable and/or extensible by the client.