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Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>:

> I see. I guess it shouldn't block. Also with this understanding, I am
> not sure Jan's work is relevant to your issue.

I have narrowed the problem down a bit in the kernel. The hanging
function is "user_path_at":

    user_path_at(filename="/sshome/test/user/", lookup_flags=0x1)
      called from: fanotify_find_path()
      called from: fanotify_mark()

And Ctrl-C wakes it up.


Marko