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node-inotify needs to use another way to save the callbacks other than the watch file descriptor as key

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp, linux, node.js

Research direction

Trace the watch bookkeeping used by removeWatch and addWatch, focusing on how callbacks are keyed by the inotify watch descriptor. Reproduce the remove-then-add sequence and inspect the handling of a late event from the removed watch. Done means the late event cannot remove or invoke the callback belonging to the replacement watch.

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Description

node-inotify needs to use another way to save the callbacks other than the watch file descriptor as key. When you make a removeWatch and a subsequent addWatch, inotify is using the same watch descriptor which is problematic because when the last event of the removed watch arrive, the callback deleted belongs to the new addWatch which is completely wrong !

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C++
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