Re: [8/8] Fix fsnotify short comings (single fd with recursive notifications).

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On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 03:59:49PM +0200, DENIEL Philippe wrote:

> What I have seen was this:
>     - if dnotify() is used, it gets every events. If used on a
> directory, it will get every creation and deletion. But it is not
> recursive, so we need to use dnotify on every inode we manage.
>     - if fanotify is used, it is recursive and by using it on the
> root of a filesystem, then you have events from the whole underlying
> tree. The trouble is that deletion seem not to be caught.

All *notify APIs are broken by design, film at 11...  See also: "Doctor,
it hurts when I do it"
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