[RFC PATCH samba] smbd: break directory leases before sending notify events

[ChenXiaoSong]

I look forward to your better solution. Please CC me when you send it, 
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   Reported-by: ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong at kylinos.cn>

On 8/17/26 16:00, Ralph Boehme wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Thanks for looking into this and trying to address the issue!
> 
> Unfortunately, iirc it won't be as simple due to the way Samba 
> internally integrates inotify with changes coming in over SMB. I have 
> this sitting on my todo list for the next months, the plan is add a new 
> change-notify backend based on fanotify, where, in contrast to inotify, 
> change notifications contain the pid of the triggering process. We need 
> that information as a differentiator in notifyd to correctly drive the 
> machinery.
> 
> As an example, iirc with just your patch, we would break the dirlease 
> for changes done by the client owning it and the change correctly 
> referencing it via the parent dirlease key in the handle triggering the 
> change.

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