RE: /dev/misc/inotify 0.11 [adr]

From: Robert Love (rml_at_novell.com)
Date: 10/06/04

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    To: David Busby <busby@edoceo.com>
Date:	Tue, 05 Oct 2004 19:11:33 -0400

    On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 16:10 -0700, David Busby wrote:

    > Here's another issue, when reading from PERL sometimes the filename part
    > of the struct inotify_event is wayyyy off. I'm reading 268 bytes at a
    > time, first 12 are the wd,mask and cookie (what is cookie anyways?) then
    > 256 for the file name. Isn't that correct? I'll try to get the
    > inotify_test.c program to reproduce.

    The cookie is going to be used to connection two related events, such as
    MOVED_TO and MOVED_FROM. Right now it is unused.

    We've never seen this problem in inotify_test or Gamin or Beagle ... so
    I would suspect this is related to your specific Perl example, but
    please let me know if you find anything.

    Best,

            Robert Love

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