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Looking at inotify again

Looking at inotify again

Posted Jul 7, 2005 13:14 UTC (Thu) by elanthis (guest, #6227)
In reply to: Looking at inotify again by dvrabel
Parent article: Looking at inotify again

No, it does not. In fact, any watched files/directories will receive a "filesystem unmounted" event if you unmount, so inotify not only allows the unmounting, but makes it dead easy for applications to intelligently handle it when it happens.


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