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System details

• OS/Platform name and version: Linux, Windows and macOS
• Notify version: 4.0.17

• If you're coming from a project that makes use of Notify, what it is, and a link to the downstream issue if there is one: https://github.com/Achiefs/fim/issues/16

Hello all,

First of all thanks for produce Notify crate it is really useful for us. We want to monitor the produced event process ID to maintain a security list over our files. This is a feature request. I have done a research into the docs without too much information about that, maybe isn't possible or it isn't provided by the Inotify Daemon. Anyway thanks for your support.

I don't think we can provide that: It's only relevant for the inotify system, and thus only for 1 of 5 backends.

If you need that I'd recommend using the inotify interface directly.

The only path forward that I could think of, is to find a good amount of backends that do provide something similar (for example if the windows and fsevent APIs from mac provide such data). Thus making it reasonable to add an Option<PID> to the backend agnostic event type.

Edit: I noticed you're on v4 which is fine, as it's the stable version. But we'll definitely not add this feature for v4, only for v5.

Hi @0xpr03

Thanks for your reply. If only inotify supports it I will have to use the inotify interface to implement such feature. I will take a look at it that way. I thought that some more backends support it but sadly don´t.

Again, thanks for your answer and tell me if you have an issue tracking down the v5 feature that you mentioned. Should I close the issue?

Regards.