Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.35.7 to 3.0 Inotify events missing

[Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:37:56AM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> Possible solution:

> Then this can be solved, in principle (if there's no better way), by
> watching a "virtual directory" that gets all events for when the
> access doesn't have a parent directory.  There needs to be some way to
> watch it, and some way to get the appropriate file from the event (as
> there is no real directory.  Or maybe there could be a virtual
> filesystem (like /proc, /sys etc.) containing a magic directory that
> receives these inode-only events, such that lookups in that directory
> yield the affected file.  Exactly as if the directory contains a hard
> link to every file, perhaps a text encoding of the handles passed
> through sys_open_by_handle_at.

There is a better way - stop using idiotify...  It has always been a
mistake, driven down our throats by filemangler and desktop crowd.
Broken in many, _many_ respects...  Deprecate that crap, remove it
completely in a couple of revisions, let these clowns cope.  Yeah,
yeah, I know...  Not going to happen ;-/  One can dream, though...