Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] stop inotify from sending random DELETE_SELF event under load | From | John McCutchan <> | Date | Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:53:12 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 05:46 +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 12:36:11AM -0400, John McCutchan wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 05:24 +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:03:36PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > One possibility is to mark the dentry deleted in d_flags. That would mean > > > > something like this (against the just-pushed-put v2.6.14-rc2, which has > > > > my previous hack). > > > > > > > > Untested. Al? > > > > > > Uhh... I still don't understand which behaviour do you want. > > > > > > > * removal of this link, at the moment when it stops being accessible > > > [ none of the above, better done from vfs_...() ] > > > > That is the behaviour we want, how does Linus's second patch not > > accomplish this? > > fd = open("foo", 0); > unlink("foo"); > sleep for ten days > close(fd); > > Linus' patch will send event on close(). Ten days since the moment > when any lookups on foo would bring you -ENOENT. >
Ahh, got it.
> Could you please describe the semantics of your events?
DELETE_SELF WD=X
The path you requested a watch on (inotify_add_watch(path,mask) returned X) has been deleted.
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