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. Currently I'm using a fuse overlay filesystem to log everything. Not perfect but works... :-) Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
