Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Apr 2014 15:31:28 +0200 | From | "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <> | Subject | Re: inotify, new idea? |
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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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