Re: v2.6.31-rc6 inotify not reporting deleted files

From: Eric Paris
Date: Wed Aug 26 2009 - 11:11:35 EST


On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 02:06 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> I don't have a small test case yet, but I have an application that
> uses inotify and watches a file and takes action when that file has been
> deleted. Running that application on 2.6.31-rc6 the application is
> no longer seeing the file being deleted.

Are you dealing with hard linked files?

-Eric

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