CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER: Inotify support for userspace

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER has multiple definitions:

Inotify support for userspace found in fs/notify/inotify/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER:

• prompt: Inotify support for userspace
• type: bool
• depends on: (none)
• defined in fs/notify/inotify/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 2.6.29–2.6.39, 3.0–3.19, 4.0–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.8, 6.9-rc+HEAD

Help text

Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the associated system calls. Inotify allows monitoring of both files and directories via a single open fd. Events are read from the file descriptor, which is also select()- and poll()-able. Inotify fixes numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several new features including multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount notification.

For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.rst

If unsure, say Y.

Inotify support for userspace found in fs/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER:

• prompt: Inotify support for userspace
• type: bool
• depends on: CONFIG_INOTIFY
• defined in fs/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 2.6.18–2.6.28

Help text

Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the associated system calls. Inotify allows monitoring of both files and directories via a single open fd. Events are read from the file descriptor, which is also select()- and poll()-able.

For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt

If unsure, say Y.

Hardware

LKDDb

Raw data from LKDDb:

• lkddb fs "inotifyfs" : CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER : fs/inotify_user.c # in 2.6.18–2.6.28
• lkddb fs "inotifyfs" : CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER : fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c # in 2.6.29–2.6.33

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