[PATCH] kdirwatch problem of detecting hard link change

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 7:23 AM, sycao<sycao at redflag-linux.com> wrote:
> sonald wrote:
>>
>>  the problem comes up  when  I  traced the problem when using kcmshell4
>> clock
>>  to set timezone, which is when you changed timezone second time,
>>  the setting just lost. I found the real problem is that
>>  KDirWatch loses watch on /etc/localtime.
>>
>>  I can reproduce the watch lose very easily:
>>    # inotifywait -m /etc/localtime
>>    # zic -l Asia/Shanghai
>>    # zic -l Asia/Muscat
>>    # touch /etc/localtime
>>
>>  After Change timezone to Muscat, subsequent changes to /etc/localtime
>>  won't be watched. because KDirWatch use inotify (I'm using a linux
>> distro),
>>  which monitoring file with respect to inode , not dir entry.
>>  zic relinked ( hardlink ) /etc/localtime, so inotify just told attrib
>>  change ( st_nlink change ) of the original file.
>>
>>  I post the patch a few months ago, and it seems that problem still exists
>>  int KDE 4.3 RC, so I post here to see if it can make some help.
>>
>>  Sian Cao
>>
>>
>>
>
> Hi, all
>  I sent this patch for a long time, and no one review it yet. but this is
> really a problem.
>
> Sian Cao

Sorry, I didn't answer. I tested it at aKademy on my Ubuntu Hardy
(kernel 2.6.24-23-generic) and it did not work for me.

Fixing this bug would probably fix bug 196316 "kcmdatetimehelper does
not set time zone correctly"

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Pau Garcia i Quiles
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(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
 
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