Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:22:39 -0400 | From | "J. Bruce Fields" <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.35.7 to 3.0 Inotify events missing |
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On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 09:07:51AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > One is to use bind mounts. i.e. I effectively do > mount --bind $HOME/.config $HOME/.config > and ask for events from the newly created vfsmnt. > This will not catch changes made through file descriptors that were opened > before I did the mount, or through hard links from some other directory > tree. But for a particular use-case that might not be a problem.
I'm missing what the extra vfsmount gets you here. The problems seem just the same as if you don't have one.
Oh, wait, I see, it's that the file descriptors are associated with vfsmounts, not just dentries. Hm.
--b.
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