Nat Friedman wrote:
> Hmm. The error message sure could be clearer.
Pick a better one from `man errno` ? :)
Actually, something like the attached might be useful.
Daniel
Index: inotify-glue.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gnome/beagle/glue/inotify-glue.c,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -B -p -r1.19 inotify-glue.c
--- inotify-glue.c 23 Mar 2005 20:21:49 -0000 1.19
+++ inotify-glue.c 22 Jun 2005 21:48:42 -0000
@@ -97,8 +96,19 @@ inotify_glue_watch (int fd, const char *
iwr.mask = mask;
wd = ioctl (fd, INOTIFY_WATCH, &iwr);
- if (wd < 0)
+ if (wd < 0) {
+ switch (errno) {
+ case ENOSPC:
+ fprintf(stderr, "Maximum watch limit hit. Try adjusting /sys/class/misc/inotify/max_user_watches\n");
+ break;
+ case EFAULT:
+ fprintf(stderr, "This usually indicates an inotify version incompatibility.\n");
+ break;
+ default:
+ break;
+ }
perror ("ioctl");
+ }
if (close (file_fd))
perror ("close");
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