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From:   Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 04:22:58PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:

> But we are actually going in cycles around the solution that we all want,
> but fear of rejection. It's time to try and solicit direct feedback from Al.
> 
> Al,
> 
> would you be ok with passing mnt arg to vfs_create() and friends,
> so that we can pass that to fsnotify_create() (and friends) in order to
> be able to report FAN_CREATE events to FAN_MARK_MOUNT listeners?

I would very much prefer to avoid going that way.