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SubjectRe: inotify, new idea?
On 04/21/2014 10:42 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am 21.04.2014 09:24, schrieb Michael Kerrisk:
>>> Does recursive monitoring even work with inotify?
>>> Last time I've tried it did failed as soon I did a mkdir -p a/b/c/d because
>>> mkdir() raced against the thread which installes the new watches.
>>
>> As I understand it, you have to program to deal with the races (rescan
>> directories after adding watches). I recently did a lot of work
>> updating the inotify(7) man page to discuss all the issues that I know
>> of, and their remedies. If I missed anything, I'd appreciate a note on
>> it, so that it can be added. See
>> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/inotify.7.html#NOTES
>
> I'm aware of the rescan hack, but in my case it does not help
> because my program must not miss any event.

Then, we're understand the same thing: you're out of luck :-}.

> Currently I'm using a fuse overlay filesystem to log everything.
> Not perfect but works... :-)

Interesting notion. I need to get to grips with FUSE...


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Michael Kerrisk
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