From: Eric Wong <e@yhbt.net>
To: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: [PATCH] inboxidle: warn on inotify_add_watch failures
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 04:20:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200706042012.29146-1-e@yhbt.net> (raw)
inotify_add_watch(2), open(2), stat(2) may all fail due to
permissions errors, especially when running -nntpd/-imapd
as `nobody' as recommended.
---
lib/PublicInbox/InboxIdle.pm | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/InboxIdle.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/InboxIdle.pm
index bdb30284a..0cdd2e2a8 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/InboxIdle.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/InboxIdle.pm
@@ -41,8 +41,11 @@ sub in2_arm ($$) { # PublicInbox::Config::each_inbox callback
$cur->[0] = $ibx;
my $lock = "$dir/".($ibx->version >= 2 ? 'inbox.lock' : 'ssoma.lock');
- my $w = $cur->[1] = $inot->watch($lock, $IN_MODIFY);
- $self->{on_unlock}->{$w->name} = $ibx;
+ if (my $w = $cur->[1] = $inot->watch($lock, $IN_MODIFY)) {
+ $self->{on_unlock}->{$w->name} = $ibx;
+ } else {
+ warn "E: ".ref($inot)."->watch($lock, IN_MODIFY) failed: $!\n";
+ }
# TODO: detect deleted packs (and possibly other files)
}
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