Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur: none Distribution: Fedora Core 6 Hardware Environment: i386 32bit PC Software Environment: Default installation of FC6 Problem Description: I could not detect some notification from inotify mechanism when adding watches to /proc file system, including IN_CREATE/IN_DELETE. I think the reason is that inotify is not built in /proc (loss of functions), although it's pretty useful. We start to develop some software based on that feature (if it could exist). I found an old message to resolve this problem: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0602.2/1815.html That patch was introduced soon after inotify was built into kernel 2.6.13. However the patch is not applied until now. I just suggest that inotify on /proc should be built in future kernel versions. Thank. -Shijin Steps to reproduce:
Patch broken as-is. Connector interface is already available. http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/69d1357df8ef29b2?q=proc+inotify+group:fa.linux.kernel+author:al+author:viro#a10f64ea3959356a http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/bdf98f50af686964?q=proc+inotify+group:fa.linux.kernel+author:al+author:viro#fcbbf7a16082d3d2