Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752075AbaDUO0v (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2014 10:26:51 -0400 Received: from mail-ee0-f45.google.com ([74.125.83.45]:46595 "EHLO mail-ee0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751210AbaDUO0t (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2014 10:26:49 -0400 Message-ID: <53551DB0.6030302@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 15:31:28 +0200 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Weinberger CC: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, Lennart Sorensen , Jos Huisken , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: inotify, new idea? References: <20140417212834.GC17769@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <5354DA0B.2060204@nod.at> In-Reply-To: <5354DA0B.2060204@nod.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/21/2014 10:42 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Am 21.04.2014 09:24, schrieb Michael Kerrisk: >>> Does recursive monitoring even work with inotify? >>> Last time I've tried it did failed as soon I did a mkdir -p a/b/c/d because >>> mkdir() raced against the thread which installes the new watches. >> >> As I understand it, you have to program to deal with the races (rescan >> directories after adding watches). I recently did a lot of work >> updating the inotify(7) man page to discuss all the issues that I know >> of, and their remedies. If I missed anything, I'd appreciate a note on >> it, so that it can be added. See >> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/inotify.7.html#NOTES > > I'm aware of the rescan hack, but in my case it does not help > because my program must not miss any event. Then, we're understand the same thing: you're out of luck :-}. > Currently I'm using a fuse overlay filesystem to log everything. > Not perfect but works... :-) Interesting notion. I need to get to grips with FUSE... -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/