Issue when renaming directory with inotifywait

[Antonin Stefanutti]

Binary package hint: inotify-tools

I am having a problem using inotifywait (version inotify-tools 3.12-1 ubuntu 8.04.1) in the following use case:

#1 I am running inotifywait the following way:
inotifywait -mrq --format '%w%f' -e create -e moved_to /home/*/dav/

#2 Then I create a new folder in /home/user/dav/, let say /home/user/dav/newdir

#3 Then I rename this folder, let say to /home/user/dav/newdir_renamed

#4 Then I create a new file, let say /home/user/dav/newdir_renamed/
newfile

# Actual Result: inotifywait triggers the event with the file path /home/user/dav/newdir/newfile

# Expected result: inotifywait should trigger the event with the file path /home/user/dav/newdir_renamed/newfile

[Arnaud Soyez (weboide)]

Confirmed in 3.12-1 in intrepid.

~$ inotifywait -mrq --format '%w%f' -e create -e moved_to tmp/
tmp/newdir
tmp/newdir2
tmp/newdir/test
tmp/newdir/test2

And here's what I typed in another console:
~/tmp$ mkdir newdir
~/tmp$ mv newdir/ newdir2
~/tmp$ touch newdir2/test
~/tmp$ touch newdir2/test2

[Ryan Niebur (ryan52)]

the patch that will soon be showing up here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=447672
also fixes this problem. I'll get a fixed package out by the time of the release process for karmic+1.

[Eriberto (eriberto)]

Hi guys. Fixed in 3.13-2 version. Closing.