Re: inotify regression, missing events

Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-07-25T22:23:05Z

On Monday 13 July 2009, Eric Paris wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 13:21 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 07:50 -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 17:02 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > In other words, when the second deleted-file-in-a-directory event comes
> > through, it gets ignored because there's already a
> > "deleted-file-in-a-directory" event for that directory?
>
> Yes, and I sent a patch but apparent screwed up the --smtp-server option
> so it never got out. Resending. Sorry.....

Did the patch reach Linus eventually?

Rafael