Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 20:01:30 +0300 From: Vladimir Kondratyev <vladimir@kondratyev.su> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: native inotify implementation Message-ID: <2331312b-4360-4595-9de5-3f2ff6c11695@kondratyev.su> In-Reply-To: <213C2EEE-B7AE-4A8C-8A0B-FFD0EE3D8462@FreeBSD.org> References: <aCJg8Qhi6qzMEVXc@nuc> <213C2EEE-B7AE-4A8C-8A0B-FFD0EE3D8462@FreeBSD.org>
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On 5/17/25 19:00, David Chisnall wrote: > My experience as a user was that NOTE_CLOSE was unreliable. I tried using it to > detect when uploads had finished but I never saw it (on ZFS). I have had > producing a working reduced test case for this on my todo list for a while, but > I solved my problem by writing my own sftp-server implementation that stored the > received ‘file’ in a shared memory object and passed it to another process, so > didn’t end up depending on this. > > The only way that I found on FreeBSD to determine that a file was no longer open > for writing was via libprocstat, which required root. Linux has an API for > this, apparently, but I didn’t try it. NOTE_CLOSE never emitted for files opened for write. You need NOTE_CLOSE_WRITE. -- WBR Vladimir Kondratyevhelp
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