Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932511AbVITEqY (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:46:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932513AbVITEqY (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:46:24 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:18057 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932511AbVITEqY (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:46:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 05:46:23 +0100 From: Al Viro To: John McCutchan Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , Robert Love , Al Viro Subject: Re: [patch] stop inotify from sending random DELETE_SELF event under load Message-ID: <20050920044623.GD7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <1127177337.15262.6.camel@vertex> <1127181641.16372.10.camel@vertex> <1127188015.17794.6.camel@vertex> <20050920042456.GC7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> <1127190971.18595.5.camel@vertex> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1127190971.18595.5.camel@vertex> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1180 Lines: 32 On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 12:36:11AM -0400, John McCutchan wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 05:24 +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:03:36PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > One possibility is to mark the dentry deleted in d_flags. That would mean > > > something like this (against the just-pushed-put v2.6.14-rc2, which has > > > my previous hack). > > > > > > Untested. Al? > > > > Uhh... I still don't understand which behaviour do you want. > > > > * removal of this link, at the moment when it stops being accessible > > [ none of the above, better done from vfs_...() ] > > That is the behaviour we want, how does Linus's second patch not > accomplish this? fd = open("foo", 0); unlink("foo"); sleep for ten days close(fd); Linus' patch will send event on close(). Ten days since the moment when any lookups on foo would bring you -ENOENT. Could you please describe the semantics of your events? - 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/