Re: [gamin] watching unaccessible directory

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 10:31:25PM +0200, Koblinger Egmont wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just played a little bit with 2.6.9-rc3 + inotify 0.12.0 patch and gamin
> 0.0.14, and I found that even as a regular user I can watch /root (which is
> root:root 700) and I recieve notification if a file is created/modified
> under /root. So this means that /dev/inotify (chmod'ed to 644) leaks me some
> pieces of information that I cannot retrieve via the regular filesystem
> interface.
> 
> Is this the normal and intended behavior?

  Cool, FAM emulation is now complete then !

More seriously, this sounds like a good inotify bug, inotify is being
developped but not finished yet, seems you have hit a classic bug.

Daniel

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