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From: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
To: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: inotify regression, missing events
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:50:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1247313019.2791.1.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1247328127.4003.6.camel@wing-commander>

On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 17:02 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> Looks like there's a regression with inotify since the rewrite to use
> fanotify.  Events are simply missing and not being delivered to
> userspace.
> 
> Here's a simple test case, just compile and run it:

I bet I know exactly what it is (notification.c tail merge code isn't
comparing filename only inode+mask) but I'm walking out of the house.
I'll try my theory later tonight and post a patch.

Stupid Eric, Stupid.

-Eric


  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-11 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-11 16:02 inotify regression, missing events Scott James Remnant
2009-07-11 11:50 ` Eric Paris [this message]
2009-07-13 12:21   ` Scott James Remnant
2009-07-13 13:43     ` Eric Paris
2009-07-25 22:23       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-07-25 22:27         ` Eric Paris

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