Re: [patch] stop inotify from sending random DELETE_SELF event under load

Al Viro
2005-09-20T03:33:56Z

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:00:41PM -0400, John McCutchan wrote:
> To quote you:
>
> Instead of the broken fsnotify_unlink/fsnotify_rmdir functions, you can
> split this into two logically _different_ functions:
>
> - fsnotify_nameremove(dentry) - called when the dentry goes away
> - fsnotify_inoderemove(dentry) - called when the inode goes away
>
> ...
>
> The fsnotify_inoderemove() is called from dentry_iput(), and that's the
> one that specifies that an actual inode no longer exists.
>
>
> ;)

That was wrong. Just have *one* function (on link removal) and stuff
i_mode and i_nlink of victim into event.