Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: inotify 0.23 errno 28 (ENOSPC) | From | Robert Love <> | Date | Tue, 24 May 2005 12:35:20 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 09:33 -0700, Bryan Wilkerson wrote:
> I read an earlier thread where you said that it was > possible to manually walk a tree and add all > directories to an inotify watch descriptor. I wrote > some code to do this and the ioctl call fails on my > machine after adding 9,977 directories with ENOSPC. > > I've attached a small repro case. Just point it at > the base of a large dir tree (e.g. inotify-r ~) to > use. > > My kernel is 2.6.12-rc3 with the inotify 0.23 patch. > Let me know if you need more information.
This is intended. There is a per-user limit on the number of watches. By default, that limit is 8192.
You can view and edit the number via /sys/class/misc/inotify/max_user_watches
Best,
Robert Love
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