From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965006AbVHYOGS (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:06:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964983AbVHYOGS (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:06:18 -0400 Received: from smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.36.81]:40078 "HELO smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S965005AbVHYOGR (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:06:17 -0400 Subject: Re: Inotify problem [was Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm1] From: John McCutchan To: Johannes Berg Cc: Robert Love , Reuben Farrelly , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1124978614.6301.44.camel@localhost> References: <430D986E.30209@reub.net> <1124972307.6307.30.camel@localhost> <1124977253.5039.13.camel@vertex> <1124977672.32272.10.camel@phantasy> <1124978614.6301.44.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:06:22 -0400 Message-Id: <1124978783.5039.29.camel@vertex> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 16:03 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 09:47 -0400, Robert Love wrote: > > > Let's just pass zero for the "above" parameter in idr_get_new_above(), > > which is I believe the behavior of the other interface, and see if the > > 1024-multiple problem goes away. We definitely did not have that > > before. > > Will we then need to test if it fails for more than 1024 watches? > > If I adjust the program to > > 1) create /tmp/test/%d > 2) watch /tmp/test/%d > 3) repeat > > it fails on 2.6.13-rc6 as soon as the device is full and doesn't hold > any more directories. Could you send me the new test program? -- John McCutchan