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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2009-07-24 13:58:22 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2009-07-24 13:58:22 +0200
commit2bbdf631f8ef1029558be19bcf8a9176a5932b8b (patch)
treeb68dac2e65bb77c65a2b0d5741f8f7d6220b9e49 /src/modules
parent18433c19b690432179e9a0ed83eff611f5cecc67 (diff)
udev: explain what happened when inotify_add_watch() returned ENOSPC, rhbz #513571
Diffstat (limited to 'src/modules')
-rw-r--r--src/modules/module-udev-detect.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/modules/module-udev-detect.c b/src/modules/module-udev-detect.c
index c8ec2bf9..11de1ccb 100644
--- a/src/modules/module-udev-detect.c
+++ b/src/modules/module-udev-detect.c
@@ -336,8 +336,18 @@ static int setup_inotify(struct userdata *u) {
pa_close(u->inotify_fd);
u->inotify_fd = -1;
- if (saved_errno == ENOENT)
+ if (saved_errno == ENOENT) {
+ pa_log_debug("/dev/snd/ is apparently not existing yet, retrying to create inotify watch later.");
return 0;
+ }
+
+ if (saved_errno == ENOSPC) {
+ pa_log("You apparently ran out of inotify watches, probably because Tracker/Beagle took them all away. "
+ "I wished people would do their homework first and fix inotify before using it for watching whole "
+ "directory trees which is something the current inotify is certainly not useful for. "
+ "Please make sure to drop the Tracker/Beagle guys a line complaining about their broken use of inotify.");
+ return 0;
+ }
pa_log("inotify_add_watch() failed: %s", pa_cstrerror(saved_errno));
return -1;