Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:06:04 +0200 | From | Pierre PEIFFER <> | Subject | inotify: notify IN_DELETE_SELF when file is deleted or inode deleted ? |
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Hi,
By playing with inotify (on user side) to know whether the file I'm using is deleted by someone else, I have noted that I do not receive the IN_DELETE_SELF event, exactly because I'm using it. By checking into kernel area, I see that at unlink(), an IN_ATTRIB event is sent, but IN_DELETE_SELF is, indeed, sent only when the inode is deleted.
But such IN_ATTRIB event doesn't tell to the user what has changed among permissions, timestamps, link count, etc... So it doesn't much help. Of course, I have noted that I can monitor the parent directory for IN_DELETE and then check which file has been deleted; few more stuff to do but it works, no pb.
But I'm still wondering after reading in the man.: IN_DELETE_SELF Watched file/directory was itself deleted. Is this really the expected behavior ? Shouldn't the kernel trig such event at unlink() ? Or is inotify clearly inode oriented ?
Thanks,
Pierre
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