linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/18] fsinfo: Provide notification overrun handling support [ver #21]

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Message-ID: <25a6f18404b55e3991ffa0874e6bec78eed7463d.camel@themaw.net>
Date:   Thu, 06 Aug 2020 09:47:43 +0800
From:   Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>
To:     Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>,
        Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        LSM <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/18] fsinfo: Provide notification overrun handling
 support [ver #21]

On Wed, 2020-08-05 at 13:27 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 1:23 PM Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2020-08-05 at 09:45 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > Hmm, what's the other possibility for lost notifications?
> > 
> > In user space that is:
> > 
> > Multi-threaded application races, single threaded applications and
> > signal processing races, other bugs ...
> 
> Okay, let's fix the bugs then.

It's the the bugs you don't know about that get you, in this case
the world "is" actually out to get you, ;)

Ian