On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 02:06 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > I don't have a small test case yet, but I have an application that > uses inotify and watches a file and takes action when that file has been > deleted. Running that application on 2.6.31-rc6 the application is > no longer seeing the file being deleted. > > With luck a word to the wise is all that is required for you to reproduce > this. Otherwise I will spend some time tomorrow making a small reproducer. I'm probably going to need a little more to go on. The most simple tests seem to work for me... kernel-2.6.31-0.167.rc6.git6.fc12.x86_64 Watch /tmp/ while deleting /tmp/tmp: $ touch /tmp/tmp $ inotifywait -m /tmp Setting up watches. Watches established. /tmp/ DELETE tmp ^C Watch /tmp/tmp while deleting /tmp/tmp $ touch /tmp/tmp $ inotifywait -m /tmp/tmp Setting up watches. Watches established. /tmp/tmp ATTRIB /tmp/tmp DELETE_SELF /tmp/tmp IGNORED Delete 2 files while inotifywait is asleep $touch /tmp/tmp1 /tmp/tmp2 $inotifywait -m /tmp Setting up watches. Watches established. ^Z [1]+ Stopped inotifywait -m /tmp $ rm -f /tmp/tmp1 $ rm -f /tmp/tmp2 $ fg inotifywait -m /tmp /tmp/ DELETE tmp1 /tmp/ DELETE tmp2 ^C Delete 2 directories while inotifywait is asleep $ mkdir /tmp/tmp1 /tmp/tmp2 $ inotifywait -m /tmp Setting up watches. Watches established. ^Z [1]+ Stopped inotifywait -m /tmp $ rmdir /tmp/tmp1 $ rmdir /tmp/tmp2 $ fg inotifywait -m /tmp /tmp/ DELETE,ISDIR tmp1 /tmp/ DELETE,ISDIR tmp2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
