Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Apr 2014 10:42:51 +0200 | From | Richard Weinberger <> | Subject | Re: inotify, new idea? |
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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. Currently I'm using a fuse overlay filesystem to log everything. Not perfect but works... :-)
Thanks, //richard
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