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

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Message-Id: <1251299483.2308.32.camel@dhcp231-106.rdu.redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:11:23 -0400
From:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Subject: Re: v2.6.31-rc6 inotify not reporting deleted files

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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