[PATCH] inotify: fix event loss on hardlinked files
authorJohn McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:02 +0000 (15:18 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Wed, 7 Sep 2005 23:57:39 +0000 (16:57 -0700)
commit7ea6040b0eff07d3a9a4e2d248ac137c6ad02d42
tree0a7bcce73c623f89cd5e8a97d2da7946da3293e3
parent8191151d0933d65fb6b659ffbd765479f0f200e1
[PATCH] inotify: fix event loss on hardlinked files

People have run into a problem when they do this:

watch (file1, all_events);
watch (file2, some_events);

if file2 is a hard link to file1, some events will be missed because by
default we replace the mask.  The patch below adds a flag IN_MASK_ADD which
will cause inotify to add to the existing mask if present.

Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
fs/inotify.c
include/linux/inotify.h