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1This contains two tests for the inotify subsytem.
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3The inotify API provides a mechanism for monitoring file system events. $
4Inotify can be used to monitor individual files, or to monitor directories. $
5When a directory is monitored, inotify will return events for the directory$
6itself, and for files inside the directory.
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8The tests are intended to do the following:
9test 1:
10 initialize inotify for the test file
11 generate sequence events:
12 operation expected event
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14 chmod file IN_ATTRIB
15 open read-only IN_OPEN
16 read IN_ACCESS
17 close IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE
18 open read-write IN_OPEN
19 write IN_MODIFY
20 close IN_CLOSE_WRITE
21 check that all events have been received
22test 2:
23 initialize inotify for the test directory
24 generate sequence events:
25 operate expected event
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27 chmod IN_ISDIR | IN_ATTRIB
28 creat file IN_CREATE
29 IN_OPEN
30 close IN_CLOSE_WRITE
31 rename file IN_MOVED_FROM
32 IN_MOVED_TO
33 rename yourself IN_MOVE_SELF
34 unlink file IN_DELETE
35 rename yourself again
36 rename back IN_MOVE_SELF
37 check that all events have been received and the last two successive
38 IN_MOVE_SELF events will be coalesced into a single one.
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