Thread: Inotify problem

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    Quote Originally Posted by matsp View Post
    Have you TRIED using it without oneshot and just putting a bit of delay after you've written the file - I'm not suggesting that as a solution, just to get an idea of if a new watch very soon after the file changes is actually what happens or not.

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    As you can see here :
    Quote Originally Posted by MisterIO View Post
    I've just tried to comment the part of the code where I write new values to the file, after having removed the watch, but it doesn't change anything, I still receive all those events.
    It was completely unrelated to the fact that I was modifying the file contents.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterIO View Post
    As you can see here :

    It was completely unrelated to the fact that I was modifying the file contents.
    Yes, of course, I remember reading that now that you remind me. Poor short term memory - probably my age...

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    Quote Originally Posted by matsp View Post
    Yes, of course, I remember reading that now that you remind me. Poor short term memory - probably my age... ;)

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    No prob;). But that would have been a serious kernel problem, because if you have races with this scheme :
    remove_watch
    write_whatever_you_want
    close_file
    add_new_watch
    then it means that you're not doing the right thing in the kernel. After the remove_watch you should be free to do whatever you want and after the close file you should be free to add any watch you want.
    Obviously talking about a single-threaded app.
    Last edited by MisterIO; 11-14-2008 at 11:15 AM.

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