Re: Linux-2.6.31-rc8 inotify hangs samba clients

[Eric Paris]

On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 00:13 +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
> 
> The first part of commit 0db501bd0610ee0c0aca84d927f90bcccd09e2bd hangs 
> WinXP clients browsing Linux samba folders ... trying to add a 
> terminating byte to name_len. Reverting this solves the problem.
> 
> The second part of adding zeros is fine.
> 
> If we don't revert here, then Samba 3.3.7 will have to change to work with 
> Linux 2.6.31-rc8, and perhaps other codes as well.

Deffinitly not Samba's fault.  I should have 2 patches to fix inotify
at:

http://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify.git/shortlog/refs/heads/for-linus

-Eric

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