Re: [PATCH -v3 5/8] fsnotify: unified filesystem notificationbackend

From: Al Viro
Date: Thu Nov 27 2008 - 23:55:09 EST


On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:21:18PM -0500, Eric Paris wrote:

What the hell is ->notification_list and what in this patchset would
add stuff to it? Even more interesting question: how long would these
guys remain there and what's to prevent a race with umount? At least
'inode-only' events will pin down the inode and leaving the matching
iput() until after umount() is a Bad Thing(tm)...
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