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    SubjectRe: inotify, new idea?
    Am 21.04.2014 09:24, schrieb Michael Kerrisk:
    >> Does recursive monitoring even work with inotify?
    >> Last time I've tried it did failed as soon I did a mkdir -p a/b/c/d because
    >> mkdir() raced against the thread which installes the new watches.
    >
    > As I understand it, you have to program to deal with the races (rescan
    > directories after adding watches). I recently did a lot of work
    > updating the inotify(7) man page to discuss all the issues that I know
    > of, and their remedies. If I missed anything, I'd appreciate a note on
    > it, so that it can be added. See
    > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/inotify.7.html#NOTES

    I'm aware of the rescan hack, but in my case it does not help
    because my program must not miss any event.
    Currently I'm using a fuse overlay filesystem to log everything.
    Not perfect but works... :-)

    Thanks,
    //richard


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