Re: [patch] stop inotify from sending random DELETE_SELF event under load

[Al Viro]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:00:41PM -0400, John McCutchan wrote:
> To quote you:
> 
> Instead of the broken fsnotify_unlink/fsnotify_rmdir functions, you can 
> split this into two logically _different_ functions:
> 
>  - fsnotify_nameremove(dentry) - called when the dentry goes away
>  - fsnotify_inoderemove(dentry) - called when the inode goes away
> 
> ...
> 
> The fsnotify_inoderemove() is called from dentry_iput(), and that's the 
> one that specifies that an actual inode no longer exists.
> 
> 
> ;)

That was wrong.  Just have *one* function (on link removal) and stuff
i_mode and i_nlink of victim into event.
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