linux-kernel - Re: Linux-2.6.31-rc8 inotify hangs samba clients

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Message-ID: <h79ina$p8b$1@ger.gmane.org>
Date:	Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:37:45 -0700
From:	walt <w41ter@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: Linux-2.6.31-rc8 inotify hangs samba clients

On 08/28/2009 09:13 AM, 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.

As another data point, the same commit also prevents udev from creating
the /dev/vboxdrv device when the vboxdrv kernel module gets loaded.

Haven't tried Eric's patches yet, but I'm betting the problem will be
cured.  Thanks for the quick fix, Eric.

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