From: Florin Malita Currently, devpts doesn't generate an fsnotify event upon pts creation because the regular vfs paths aren't involved. Deallocation, on the other hand, correctly generates a nameremove event thanks to the d_delete() invocation in devpts_pty_kill(). This patch adds the missing fsnotify_create() trigger in devpts_pty_new(). Signed-off-by: Florin Malita Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/devpts/inode.c | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/devpts/inode.c~devpts-add-fsnotify-create-event fs/devpts/inode.c --- a/fs/devpts/inode.c~devpts-add-fsnotify-create-event +++ a/fs/devpts/inode.c @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #define DEVPTS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x1cd1 @@ -178,8 +179,10 @@ int devpts_pty_new(struct tty_struct *tt inode->i_private = tty; dentry = get_node(number); - if (!IS_ERR(dentry) && !dentry->d_inode) + if (!IS_ERR(dentry) && !dentry->d_inode) { d_instantiate(dentry, inode); + fsnotify_create(devpts_root->d_inode, dentry); + } mutex_unlock(&devpts_root->d_inode->i_mutex); _