Messages in this thread | | | From | Kyle Moffett <> | Subject | Re: inotify and IN_UNMOUNT-events | Date | Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:44:54 -0400 |
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On Aug 30, 2005, at 23:33:27, Robert Love wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 21:46 +0200, Juergen Quade wrote: > >> Playing around with inotify I have some problems >> to generate/receive IN_UNMOUNT-events (using >> a self written application and inotify_utils-0.25; >> kernel 2.6.13). >> >> Doing: >> - mount /dev/hda1 /mnt >> - add a watch to the path /mnt/ ("./inotify_test /mnt") >> - umount /mnt >> >> results in two events: >> 1. IN_DELETE_SELF (mask=0x0400) >> 2. IN_IGNORED (mask=0x8000) >> >> Any ideas? > > "/mnt" is not unmounted, stuff inside of it is. > > Watch, say, "/mnt/foo/bar" and when /dev/hda1 is unmounted, you > will get > an IN_UNMOUNT on the watch.
I think this might work as well: # mount /dev/hda1 /mnt # ./inotify_test /mnt/. & # umount /mnt
That should get the effect you are looking for
Cheers, Kyle Moffett
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