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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:11:31 -0500
From: "Morten Welinder" <mwelinder@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Inotify fails to send IN_ATTRIB events
Cc: rlove@rlove.org, "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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I am seeing missing inotify IN_ATTRIB events in the following situation:

1. "touch foo"

2. Make inotify watch "foo"

3. "ln foo bar"
   --> Link count changed so I should have gotten an IN_ATTRIB.

4. "rm foo"
   --> Link count changed so I should have gotten an IN_ATTRIB.  (Or
IN_DELETE_SELF;
   I don't care which.)

5. "ln bar foo && rm bar"
   --> Still no events.

6. "mv foo bar"
   --> I get IN_MOVED_SELF.  Good!

7. "mv bar foo"
   --> I get IN_MOVED_SELF.  Good!


3+4 is pretty much the same as 6, so I really ought to be told that my
file has changed
name.  I don't really care much about getting notified about 3, but
for completeness
it ought to be handled.

As far as I can see, the only way to be told about 4 is to put a watch
on the directory in
which foo resides.  That is inelegant and has an inherent race condition.

This is with "Linux version 2.6.22.12-0.1-default" (SuSE 10.3)

Looking at current source, fs/namei.c, I notice that vfs_rename has a
fsnotify_move call
(which notified directory as well as files) whereas sys_link only has
a fsnotify_create call
(which notified the directory only).

Morten
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