Some inotify events are ignored

[Mario Ceresa]

rollback.conf and rollback.pid CREATE events are not received!

See:

$ python track_changes.py /mnt/btrfs/

Activating watcher on /mnt/btrfs/
CREATED DIR root/bin
CREATED DIR root/etc
CREATED DIR root/lib
CREATED DIR root/usr
CREATED DIR root/var
CREATED DIR root/etc/rollback
CREATED DIR root/var/rollback
CREATED root/bin/rollback.sh
CHANGED METADATA root/bin/rollback.sh
CHANGED METADATA root/etc/rollback/rollback.conf
CHANGED METADATA root/var/rollback/rollback.pid
MODIFIED root/bin/rollback.sh
MODIFIED root/bin/rollback.sh
MODIFIED root/etc/rollback/rollback.conf
MODIFIED root/var/rollback/rollback.pid
DELETED root/var/rollback/rollback.pid
DELETED DIR root/var/rollback

[Mario Ceresa (mrceresa)]

Made a test case. Run with

$ python test.py

failure is random at each execution

I use pyinotify 0.8.9 for python 2.6

[Mario Ceresa (mrceresa)]

Filed a bug request upstream:

http://trac.dbzteam.org/pyinotify/ticket/39

[Mario Ceresa (mrceresa)]

As reported in:

http://trac.dbzteam.org/pyinotify/ticket/39

it's a timing problem.

Adding a time.sleep(0.01) just before the end of run_example.py solves the problem.