Re: [PATCH] fs/notify/inotify: decrement user inotify count onclose

From: Eric Paris
Date: Thu Jul 02 2009 - 08:15:09 EST

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On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 21:56 -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> The per-user inotify_devs value is incremented each time a new file is
> allocated, but never decremented. This led to inotify_init failing after a
> limited number of calls.
>
> Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, I will push to Linus later today, sorry about the regression!

-Eric

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