Re: [PATCH] inotify: IN_DELETE events missing in -mm

On Wed, 2006-29-03 at 10:57 -0500, Amy Griffis wrote:
> In recent -mm kernels (e.g. 2.6.16-mm1), IN_DELETE events are no longer 
> generated for the removal of a file from a watched directory.
> 
> This seems to be a result of clearing DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED in
> d_delete() directly before calling fsnotify_nameremove().
> 
> Assuming the flag doesn't need to be cleared before dentry_iput(), this should
> do the trick.

I took a quick look at nick's patch again, and it doesn't seem to
require the flag being cleared before dentry_iput. This looks good to
me. Nick?

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