On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 01:11, Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 01:05 +0300, Alexey Zaytsev wrote: >> Just some thoughts. >> >> Consider the situation: Files A and B both point to the same inode. >> File A is being watched, but the user won't get notifications if B is >> modified. > > That's not true. ÂUsers watch inodes, not files (this is true for both > inotify and fanotify). ÂGive it a try, it works. > debian-i386:~/tmp# touch a debian-i386:~/tmp# ../fanotify a & debian-i386:~/tmp# link a b debian-i386:~/tmp# ls -li total 0 3433 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 0 Nov 15 22:37 a 3433 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 0 Nov 15 22:37 b debian-i386:~/tmp# echo 123 > b /root/tmp/b: pid=2143 mask = 20 open /root/tmp/b: pid=2143 mask = a modify 0 - 4 close(writable) 0 - 4 Am I doing something wrong? Same thing happens if I watch the mount point. -- 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
