Comment 7 for bug 723518

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Colin Ian King (colin-king) wrote :

Lucid SRU Justification:

The IN_DELETE_SELF mask for inotify_add_watch indicates that an event
should be emitted when the watched path is deleted, however, this does
not happen on an eCryptfs mount.

To reproduce:

mkdir upper lower
sudo mount -t ecryptfs lower upper

and compile and run the following test program in the upper directory:

https://launchpadlibrarian.net/64953109/inotify.c

This test program hangs waiting for the IN_DELETE_SELF event that never
occurs.