From: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 18:10:11 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: inotify: Give a better error message if user's watch limit exceeds.
X-Git-Tag: 2.0.alpha1~462
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c7398cd92a003144358c121bdea63fba35b884ae;p=thirdparty%2Fdovecot%2Fcore.git

inotify: Give a better error message if user's watch limit exceeds.

--HG--
branch : HEAD
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diff --git a/src/lib/ioloop-notify-inotify.c b/src/lib/ioloop-notify-inotify.c
index 2addb4d3b8..a5c168aad8 100644
--- a/src/lib/ioloop-notify-inotify.c
+++ b/src/lib/ioloop-notify-inotify.c
@@ -106,7 +106,13 @@ enum io_notify_result io_add_notify(const char *path, io_callback_t *callback,
 		if (errno == ENOENT || errno == ESTALE)
 			return IO_NOTIFY_NOTFOUND;
 
-		i_error("inotify_add_watch(%s) failed: %m", path);
+		if (errno != ENOSPC)
+			i_error("inotify_add_watch(%s) failed: %m", path);
+		else {
+			i_warning("Inotify watch limit for user exceeded, "
+				  "disabling. Increase "
+				  "/proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches");
+		}
 		ctx->disabled = TRUE;
 		return IO_NOTIFY_NOSUPPORT;
 	}