On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 03:47:54PM -0500, James Antill wrote:
>  Say you have...
> 
> /a/b/c/d
> 
> ...and you are monitoring the 'd' directory. Then someone does...
> 
> % mv /a/b /a/b.old
> % mkdir -p /a/b/c/d

that shouldn't trigger an event.  i'm strongly against doing recursion
of this in the kernel.  if you want to monitor that kind of thing, it makes
sense to do it in userspace.

are there any cases where you want to know that the directory itself
has been renamed, but not that one of its more remote ancestors has been
renamed?

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