Re: A possible flaw in the fsnotify design.

From: Eric Paris
Date: Mon Nov 15 2010 - 17:32:36 EST


On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 01:05 +0300, Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
> Just some thoughts.
>
> Consider the situation: Files A and B both point to the same inode.
> File A is being watched, but the user won't get notifications if B is
> modified.

That's not true. Users watch inodes, not files (this is true for both
inotify and fanotify). Give it a try, it works.

-Eric

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