From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756315AbZHZJHE (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:07:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755761AbZHZJHD (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:07:03 -0400 Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]:40882 "EHLO out01.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753266AbZHZJHB (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:07:01 -0400 To: Eric Paris CC: , , "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: v2.6.31-rc6 inotify not reporting deleted files From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:06:58 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-XM-SPF: eid=;;;mid=;;;hst=in02.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=76.21.114.89;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 76.21.114.89 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: eparis@redhat.com, rjw@sisk.pl, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:26:12 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on in02.mta.xmission.com); Unknown failure Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. With luck a word to the wise is all that is required for you to reproduce this. Otherwise I will spend some time tomorrow making a small reproducer. Eric