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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2016
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Dominic B. Giampaolo, Mountain View, CA (US);
Pavel Cisler, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Eric A. Weiss, Paris, FR;
Kristen A. McIntyre, Fremont, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for file system management. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request at a kernel to perform a file operation on a particular file; identifying a flag bit associated with the file; invoking user space file handler to perform particular action when the flag bit is set; determining whether notification that action has been performed by file handler is received; and allowing the file operation on the file when notification is received.