Clem Taylor wrote: [Wed Feb 06 2008, 02:40:58PM EST] > > Good bug report, thanks. That code was significantly altered in June 2006 > > and perhaps something broke. > > I also tested on a 2.6.20 x86 desktop machine. It took ~8k iterations > to fail, which matched max_user_watches. Once the program fails, it > will fail right away if it is re-run. > > > It's a bit hard to find people who work on inotify, I'm afraid. If you had > > the time to come up with a script or program which demonstrates the bug, > > that would be super-helpful? > > Attached is a simple example that shows off the problem. On a system > with a problem, it will only run for about > fs.inotify.max_user_watches iterations. If everything is working, it > should run forever.
I'll take a look at this. Thanks for providing a reproducer. Amy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
