[gamin] Re: [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.10.0

[Andrew Morton <akpm osdl org>]

Ray Lee <ray-lk madrabbit org> wrote:
>
> The current way pads out the structure unnecessarily, and still doesn't
> handle the really long filenames, by your admission. It incurs extra
> syscalls, as few filenames are really 256 characters in length. 

Why don't you pass a file descriptor into the syscall instead of a pathname?
You can then take a ref on the inode and userspace can close the file.
That gets you permission checking for free.