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Does inotify fire a notification when a write is started or when it is completed?

Imagine two processes, a reader and a writer, communicating via a regular file on an ext3 fs. Reader has an inotify IN_MODIFY watch on the file. Writer writes 1000 bytes to the file, in a single ...

asked Jul 11 '12 at 15:28

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