Bug 115571
| Summary: | Watching a directory with inotify does not trigger events on hardlinks | ||
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| Product: | Other | Reporter: | sworddragon2 |
| Component: | Other | Assignee: | other_other |
| Status: | NEW --- | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | lav |
| Priority: | P1 | ||
| Hardware: | x86-64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Kernel Version: | 4.4.6 | Subsystem: | |
| Regression: | No | Bisected commit-id: | |
| Attachments: | Testcase | ||
See also https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=532815 They add G_FILE_MONITOR_WATCH_HARDLINKS flag and make workaround for case with hard links g_file_monitor_file can be used with G_FILE_MONITOR_WATCH_HARD_LINKS flag for get events from hard link. This works only for a file, not for whole directory. https://developer.gnome.org/gio/2.60/GFile.html |
Created attachment 211201 [details] Testcase I'm noticing that watching a directory with inotify does not trigger events on hardlinks. In the attachments is an example which demonstrates this. It needs just to be compiled for example with "gcc -Wall -pedantic -o test test.c" and then executed. It prints "testfile1.txt" (the event on the normal file) while I would also expect it to print "testfile2.txt" (the hardlink).