Re: inotify and IN_UNMOUNT-events

[Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>]

On Aug 30, 2005, at 23:33:27, Robert Love wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 21:46 +0200, Juergen Quade wrote:
>
> > Playing around with inotify I have some problems
> > to generate/receive IN_UNMOUNT-events (using
> > a self written application and inotify_utils-0.25;
> > kernel 2.6.13).
> >
> > Doing:
> > - mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
> > - add a watch to the path /mnt/ ("./inotify_test /mnt")
> > - umount /mnt
> >
> > results in two events:
> > 1. IN_DELETE_SELF (mask=0x0400)
> > 2. IN_IGNORED     (mask=0x8000)
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> "/mnt" is not unmounted, stuff inside of it is.
>
> Watch, say, "/mnt/foo/bar" and when /dev/hda1 is unmounted, you  
> will get
> an IN_UNMOUNT on the watch.

I think this might work as well:
# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
# ./inotify_test /mnt/. &
# umount /mnt

That should get the effect you are looking for

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

--
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you  
looked at
it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
  -- Poul Anderson



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