On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 at 17:28, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > And yes, this changes the timing on when fsnotify events happen, but > what I'm actually hoping for is that Jan will agree that it doesn't > actually matter semantically. .. and yes, I realize it might actually matter. fsnotify does do 'ihold()' to hold an inode ref, and with this that would actually be more or less pointless, because the mark would be removed _despite_ such a ref. So maybe it's not an option to do what I suggested. I don't know the users well enough. Linus