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Diffstat (limited to 'pkg/sentry/fsimpl/gofer/gofer.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | pkg/sentry/fsimpl/gofer/gofer.go | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/sentry/fsimpl/gofer/gofer.go b/pkg/sentry/fsimpl/gofer/gofer.go index c6696b9d8..81d34cfe3 100644 --- a/pkg/sentry/fsimpl/gofer/gofer.go +++ b/pkg/sentry/fsimpl/gofer/gofer.go @@ -703,6 +703,13 @@ type dentry struct { locks vfs.FileLocks // Inotify watches for this dentry. + // + // Note that inotify may behave unexpectedly in the presence of hard links, + // because dentries corresponding to the same file have separate inotify + // watches when they should share the same set. This is the case because it is + // impossible for us to know for sure whether two dentries correspond to the + // same underlying file (see the gofer filesystem section fo vfs/inotify.md for + // a more in-depth discussion on this matter). watches vfs.Watches } |