Het real path of a share.

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 10:45 +0100, Stef Bon wrote:
> 2013/2/14 Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de>:
> >>
> >> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg51115.html
> >>
> >> This was in a thread started by me suggesting to add netlink messages
> >> when a inotify watch has been added or removed.
> >> Their attitude is only about inotify in combination with network
> >> flesystems I guess.
> >
> > Ok, thanks! Quoting:
> >
> >> Passing the pathname is *hopeless* here.  And IMNSHO so's
> >> relying on inotify in general - it's not a general-purpose
> >> API and any program relying on it being usable on an
> >> arbitrary part of tree is buggy.
> >
> > That's indeed strong language. Lets see when it's going away
> > :-)
> 
> I also found:
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=130053046701203&w=2
> 
> Here I also started the issue.
> 
> Is there anything really agains inotify? It's doing its job, I never
> have any problems. Yes it cannot cooperate with network and fuse
> filesystems, but that is by design.

Isn't the big problem here inotify on a subtree, rather than on a
directory or file only?  

Andrew Bartlett

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