Re: [GIT PULL] notification tree - try 37!

[Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 10:09 +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 August 2010 05:39:47 Eric Paris wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 22:32 +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > > Q: What happens when a process watching for FAN_OPEN_PERM or
> > > FAN_ACCESS_PERM events exits or dies while events are in flight?  I
> > > can't see anything in the code that would wake sleeping processes up
> > > when the fsnotify_group of the listener is torn down.
> > 
> > We can get stuck.  There was code which cleaned that up, but it got
> > accidentally removed long ago when, upon review on list, I was told to
> > remove all timeout code.  It's easy enough to fix up.  I'll post a patch
> > this week.
> 
> This needs to be fixed then.  Not such a big deal, but it shows that the tree 
> wasn't ready for being merged yet and needs further review.

Code with bugs, shocking!  Two other bugs have been found and patches
for those will be coming shortly.  I've begged for review how many
times?  I don't care when review it comes, I'll address any issues as
they come up.

-Eric