From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri)
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: return value of inotify_add_watch()
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:36:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090830023636.GA12825@bongo.bofh.it> (raw)
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inotify_add_watch may fail in udev_watch_begin, and then a link with
name -1 is created.
I do not know why, but it happened once on my system:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Aug 4 11:27 -1 -> /devices/virtual/block/ram8
Then udev would log an error every time it was restarted:
Aug 30 04:17:20 bongo udevd[12451]: unable to move watches dir '/dev/.udev/watch', old watches will not be restored: Directory not empty
Maybe the content of the .old directory should also be deleted.
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ciao,
Marco
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2009-08-30 2:36 Marco d'Itri [this message]
2009-08-30 18:44 ` return value of inotify_add_watch() Kay Sievers
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