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

Al Viro
2005-09-20T04:46:24Z

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 12:36:11AM -0400, John McCutchan wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 05:24 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:03:36PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > One possibility is to mark the dentry deleted in d_flags. That would mean
> > > something like this (against the just-pushed-put v2.6.14-rc2, which has
> > > my previous hack).
> > >
> > > Untested. Al?
> >
> > Uhh... I still don't understand which behaviour do you want.
>
>
> > * removal of this link, at the moment when it stops being accessible
> > [ none of the above, better done from vfs_...() ]
>
> That is the behaviour we want, how does Linus's second patch not
> accomplish this?

fd = open("foo", 0);
unlink("foo");
sleep for ten days
close(fd);

Linus' patch will send event on close(). Ten days since the moment
when any lookups on foo would bring you -ENOENT.

Could you please describe the semantics of your events?