https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76851 --- Comment #8 from Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> --- (In reply to Jeff from comment #4) > I should also add that my assumptions about watch descriptor reuse may very > well be overly cautious. If there is a guarantee that a wd will never be > returned by a inotify_add_watch() call until nothing with that wd remains in > the read queue [...] And that's the nub of the issue of course. As I suspected, and Heinrich has demonstrated in #5, the kernel does not provide such a guarantee. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
