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

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Date:	Thu, 2 Oct 2014 12:44:57 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.debian@....de>,
	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	John McCutchan <john@...nmccutchan.com>,
	Robert Love <rlove@...ve.org>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: don't remove inotify watchers from alive inode-s
 (v2)

On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 12:45:52 +0200 Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> 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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