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From:   Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Date:   Wed, 5 Aug 2020 09:45:52 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/18] fsinfo: Provide notification overrun handling
 support [ver #21]
To:     Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
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        Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
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On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 4:46 AM Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> wrote:
>

> Coming back to an actual use case.
>
> What I said above is one aspect but, since I'm looking at this right
> now with systemd, and I do have the legacy code to fall back to, the
> "just reset everything" suggestion does make sense.
>
> But I'm struggling to see how I can identify notification buffer
> overrun in libmount, and overrun is just one possibility for lost
> notifications, so I like the idea that, as a library user, I can
> work out that I need to take action based on what I have in the
> notifications themselves.

Hmm, what's the other possibility for lost notifications?

Thanks,
Miklos