Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:02:50 -0700 (PDT) | From | John <> | Subject | What is the status of fanotify bugs? |
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Hi, I googled and found at least 2 fanotify bugs, which were discussed and patches were submitted but never merged into the kernel:
1. This one is more than 2 years old. Seems to be an obvious bug: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/46b25f4dfc96d811
2. This discussion was abruptly terminated last year: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/5e21ff2b0c446b69
And I have another problem, which is a complete show stopper for me: fsnotify/fanotify do not pass file/directory creation/deletion events when working in FAN_MARK_MOUNT mode. I was hoping to get notified about file system changes, but it appears to be impossible. A directory with many subdirectories can be deleted and fsnotify/fanotify completely ignore this event.
So, I wonder whether fsnotify/fanotify framework is still being maintained and used by anybody. If nobody else cares about it, then I will need to make my own file system notification hook. But, of course, it would be better to fix fsnotify/fanotify so that I can avoid maintaining my own notification code.
What do you think?
Thank you John
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