From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: v2.6.31-rc6 inotify not reporting deleted files
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:12:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1eiqy5o87.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1251299483.2308.32.camel@dhcp231-106.rdu.redhat.com> (Eric Paris's message of "Wed\, 26 Aug 2009 11\:11\:23 -0400")
Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> writes:
> On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 02:06 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> I don't have a small test case yet, but I have an application that
>> uses inotify and watches a file and takes action when that file has been
>> deleted. Running that application on 2.6.31-rc6 the application is
>> no longer seeing the file being deleted.
>
> Are you dealing with hard linked files?
I shouldn't be. When I skimmed through everything last night it
looked like add a watch for create/delete/modify. Wait.
File created (see it) file deleted (miss it).
I will go verify I can cook up a reproducer, on my box where it
has been failing consistently.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-26 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-26 9:06 v2.6.31-rc6 inotify not reporting deleted files Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-26 11:25 ` Eric Paris
2009-08-26 15:11 ` Eric Paris
2009-08-26 20:12 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2009-08-27 10:20 ` [PATCH] inotify: Ensure we alwasy write the terminating NULL Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-27 11:57 ` Eric Paris
2009-08-28 13:29 ` Brian Rogers
2009-08-28 14:18 ` Eric Paris
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