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On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:21:18PM -0500, Eric Paris wrote:

What the hell is ->notification_list and what in this patchset would
add stuff to it?  Even more interesting question: how long would these
guys remain there and what's to prevent a race with umount?  At least
'inode-only' events will pin down the inode and leaving the matching
iput() until after umount() is a Bad Thing(tm)...