Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: v2.6.31-rc6 inotify not reporting deleted files | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:12:08 -0700 |
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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
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