Re: inotify regression, missing events

[Scott James Remnant]

On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 07:50 -0400, Eric Paris wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 17:02 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > Looks like there's a regression with inotify since the rewrite to use
> > fanotify.  Events are simply missing and not being delivered to
> > userspace.
> > 
> > Here's a simple test case, just compile and run it:
> 
> I bet I know exactly what it is (notification.c tail merge code isn't
> comparing filename only inode+mask) but I'm walking out of the house.
> I'll try my theory later tonight and post a patch.
> 
> Stupid Eric, Stupid.
> 
In other words, when the second deleted-file-in-a-directory event comes
through, it gets ignored because there's already a
"deleted-file-in-a-directory" event for that directory?

Scott
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