On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 16:05, Michal Schmidt <mschm...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 15:53:54 +0100 Kay Sievers wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 15:39, Michal Schmidt <mschm...@redhat.com> >> wrote: >> >> > inotify_add_watch(17, "/dev/.systemd/ask-password", >> > IN_ATTRIB|IN_MOVED_TO|IN_CREATE|IN_DELETE_SELF|IN_MOVE_SELF) = 1 >> > inotify_add_watch(17, "/dev/.systemd", >> > IN_ATTRIB|IN_DELETE_SELF|IN_MOVE_SELF) = 2 inotify_add_watch(17, >> > "/dev", IN_ATTRIB|IN_DELETE_SELF|IN_MOVE_SELF) = 3 >> > inotify_add_watch(17, "/", IN_ATTRIB|IN_DELETE_SELF|IN_MOVE_SELF) = >> > 4 >> >> Any idea why the heck we want to watch all parent dirs? > > I think it's this way in order to simulate a strict path-based watch, > as opposed to an inode-based one. > For cases when someone recreates the directory hierarchy in a weird > way, like: > # a watch is set on /foo/bar/baz > mv /foo/bar /foo/qux > mkdir -p /foo/bar/baz # a completely NEW /foo/bar/baz inode
That should probably be avoided for DirectoryNotEmpty=. Nothing should watch /dev just for that reason. Kay _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
