From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: v2.6.31-rc6 inotify not reporting deleted files Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:12:08 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1251299483.2308.32.camel@dhcp231-106.rdu.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Eric Paris Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1251299483.2308.32.camel@dhcp231-106.rdu.redhat.com> (Eric Paris's message of "Wed\, 26 Aug 2009 11\:11\:23 -0400") Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Eric Paris writes: > On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 02:06 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> I don't have a small test case yet, but I have an application that >> uses inotify and watches a file and takes action when that file has been >> deleted. Running that application on 2.6.31-rc6 the application is >> no longer seeing the file being deleted. > > Are you dealing with hard linked files? I shouldn't be. When I skimmed through everything last night it looked like add a watch for create/delete/modify. Wait. File created (see it) file deleted (miss it). I will go verify I can cook up a reproducer, on my box where it has been failing consistently. Eric