On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 15:53:54 +0100 Kay Sievers wrote: > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 15:39, Michal Schmidt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > inotify_add_watch(17, "/dev/.systemd/ask-password", > > IN_ATTRIB|IN_MOVED_TO|IN_CREATE|IN_DELETE_SELF|IN_MOVE_SELF) = 1 > > inotify_add_watch(17, "/dev/.systemd", > > IN_ATTRIB|IN_DELETE_SELF|IN_MOVE_SELF) = 2 inotify_add_watch(17, > > "/dev", IN_ATTRIB|IN_DELETE_SELF|IN_MOVE_SELF) = 3 > > inotify_add_watch(17, "/", IN_ATTRIB|IN_DELETE_SELF|IN_MOVE_SELF) = > > 4 > > Any idea why the heck we want to watch all parent dirs?
I think it's this way in order to simulate a strict path-based watch, as opposed to an inode-based one. For cases when someone recreates the directory hierarchy in a weird way, like: # a watch is set on /foo/bar/baz mv /foo/bar /foo/qux mkdir -p /foo/bar/baz # a completely NEW /foo/bar/baz inode Michal _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
