Re: A possible flaw in the fsnotify design.

[Eric Paris]

On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 01:05 +0300, Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
> Just some thoughts.
> 
> Consider the situation: Files A and B both point to the same inode.
> File A is being watched, but the user won't get notifications if B is
> modified.

That's not true.  Users watch inodes, not files (this is true for both
inotify and fanotify).  Give it a try, it works.

-Eric

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