Re: [PATCH] fs: don't remove inotify watchers from alive inode-s (v2)

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Oct 02 2014 - 15:45:04 EST


On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 12:45:52 +0200 Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > With the patch you'll always have the second case. So without the patch you
> > don't receive some events if the file has at least 2 hardlinks and then
> > gets unlinked. I think the risk that some application relies on *not* getting
> > those events is pretty low (especially since in the common case of file
> > without hardlinks you will get all those events).
> Ping Andrew? Do you still need more info or are you now OK to merge the
> patch?

Resend please, with a completed changelog.
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