Re: Inotify problem [was Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm1]

[John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>]

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 15:50 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 09:40 -0400, John McCutchan wrote:
> 
> > On 2.6.13-rc7 the test program fails. It always fails when a wd == 1024.
> > If I skip inotify_rm_watch when wd == 1024, it will fail at wd == 2048.
> > It seems the idr layer has an aversion to multiples of 1024.
> > 
> > When I run your test program I get this a lot:
> 
> I forgot to mention this -- but I just get (on -rc6):
> 
> inotify_add_watch returned wd1 0
> inotify_add_watch returned wd2 1
> inotify_add_watch returned wd1 0
> inotify_add_watch returned wd2 1
> inotify_add_watch returned wd1 0
> inotify_add_watch returned wd2 1

Yeah, pre -rc7 we were always passing in 0 to idr_get_new_above. With
rc7 we pass in the last wd returned.

-- 
John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
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