Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] stop inotify from sending random DELETE_SELF event under load | From | John McCutchan <> | Date | Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:06:23 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 05:58 +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 12:53:12AM -0400, John McCutchan wrote: > > DELETE_SELF WD=X > > > > The path you requested a watch on (inotify_add_watch(path,mask) returned > > X) has been deleted. > > Then why the devil do we have IN_DELETE and IN_DELETE_SELF generated > in different places? The only difference is in who receives the > event - you send IN_DELETE to watchers on parent and IN_DELETE_SELF > on watchers on victim. Event itself is the same, judging by your > description...
No, because in the case of IN_DELETE, the path represented by the WD hasn't been deleted, it is "PATH(WD)/event->name" that has been. Also, IN_DELETE_SELF marks the death of the WD, no further events will be sent with the same WD [Except for the IN_IGNORE].
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