From: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Robert Love <rml@novell.com>, Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [patch] stop inotify from sending random DELETE_SELF event under load
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:06:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1127192784.19093.7.camel@vertex> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050920045835.GE7992@ftp.linux.org.uk>
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 05:58 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 12:53:12AM -0400, John McCutchan wrote:
> > DELETE_SELF WD=X
> >
> > The path you requested a watch on (inotify_add_watch(path,mask) returned
> > X) has been deleted.
>
> Then why the devil do we have IN_DELETE and IN_DELETE_SELF generated
> in different places? The only difference is in who receives the
> event - you send IN_DELETE to watchers on parent and IN_DELETE_SELF
> on watchers on victim. Event itself is the same, judging by your
> description...
No, because in the case of IN_DELETE, the path represented by the WD
hasn't been deleted, it is "PATH(WD)/event->name" that has been. Also,
IN_DELETE_SELF marks the death of the WD, no further events will be sent
with the same WD [Except for the IN_IGNORE].
--
John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-20 5:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-20 0:48 [patch] stop inotify from sending random DELETE_SELF event under load John McCutchan
2005-09-20 1:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-20 2:00 ` John McCutchan
2005-09-20 2:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-20 3:46 ` John McCutchan
2005-09-20 4:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-20 4:24 ` Al Viro
2005-09-20 4:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-20 4:36 ` John McCutchan
2005-09-20 4:46 ` Al Viro
2005-09-20 4:53 ` John McCutchan
2005-09-20 4:58 ` Al Viro
2005-09-20 5:06 ` John McCutchan [this message]
2005-09-20 5:17 ` Al Viro
2005-09-20 12:34 ` John McCutchan
2005-09-20 16:38 ` Al Viro
2005-09-20 17:44 ` Ray Lee
2005-09-20 18:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-20 18:22 ` Al Viro
2005-09-20 19:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-20 22:53 ` John McCutchan
2005-09-21 0:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-21 0:52 ` John McCutchan
2005-09-21 1:01 ` Al Viro
2005-09-21 1:41 ` John McCutchan
2005-09-21 2:36 ` Al Viro
2005-09-21 8:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-21 4:15 ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Joel Becker
2005-09-21 9:15 ` Joel Becker
2005-09-21 9:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-21 9:45 ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Joel Becker
2005-09-21 14:45 ` Joel Becker
2005-09-21 13:08 ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Mark Fasheh
2005-09-21 18:08 ` Mark Fasheh
2005-09-20 18:26 ` John McCutchan
2005-09-20 19:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-20 4:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-20 4:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-20 4:27 ` John McCutchan
2005-09-20 3:33 ` Al Viro
2005-09-20 3:50 ` John McCutchan
2005-09-20 3:31 ` Al Viro
2005-09-20 3:51 ` John McCutchan
2005-09-20 8:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
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