Re: [patch 3/7] fs, notify: Add file handle entry intoinotify_inode_mark

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Wed Nov 14 2012 - 05:13:38 EST


On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 02:10:50PM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> >>
> >> How can the c/r restore code reestablish the inode data if the dentry
> >> isn't there any more?
> >
> > By "deleted" I meant deleted from dcache, thus when we call for
> > open_by_handle_at with fhandle, the kernel reconstruct the path
> > and we simply read the /proc/self/fd/ link, and then pass this
> > path to inotify_add_watch.
>
> No we don't do readlink as the path we'd see would be empty. Instead after
> we called the open_by_handle_at, we pass the "/proc/self/fd/<fd>" _path_ itself
> to inotify_add_watch. The path resolution code follows the link properly and
> adds the target inode into the watch list.

Yeah, sorry for confusion.
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