Re: inotify 0.23 errno 28 (ENOSPC)

[Robert Love]

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 09:33 -0700, Bryan Wilkerson wrote:

> I read an earlier thread where you said that it was
> possible to manually walk a tree and add all
> directories to an inotify watch descriptor.  I wrote
> some code to do this and the ioctl call fails on my
> machine after adding 9,977 directories with ENOSPC.  
> 
> I've attached a small repro case.  Just point it at
> the base of a large dir tree (e.g. inotify-r ~) to
> use. 
> 
> My kernel is 2.6.12-rc3 with the inotify 0.23 patch. 
> Let me know if you need more information.  

This is intended.  There is a per-user limit on the number of watches.
By default, that limit is 8192.

You can view and edit the number via
	/sys/class/misc/inotify/max_user_watches

Best,

	Robert Love


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