Re: Inotify problem [was Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm1]

Johannes Berg
2005-08-25T14:03:53Z

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On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 09:47 -0400, Robert Love wrote:

> Let's just pass zero for the "above" parameter in idr_get_new_above(),
> which is I believe the behavior of the other interface, and see if the
> 1024-multiple problem goes away. We definitely did not have that
> before.

Will we then need to test if it fails for more than 1024 watches?

If I adjust the program to

1) create /tmp/test/%d
2) watch /tmp/test/%d
3) repeat

it fails on 2.6.13-rc6 as soon as the device is full and doesn't hold
any more directories.

johannes

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