uci: unnecessary write accesses
Florian Eckert
fe at dev.tdt.de
Tue Sep 21 04:42:43 PDT 2021
Thanks for your feedback
>> I have written a small shell script, to track write access to the
>> '/etc/config' directory.
>> For this task I am using the inotify-tool package [1].
>> I am using the inotifywait tool to add the watchers [2] with a small
>> shell script and log them to the syslog.
>>
>> If I change a 'uci' option with the the 'uci' commands, then I get
>> create and write events for a temporary file in the '/etc/config/'
>> directory.
>> I didn't expect it to be like this.
>>
>> For example, if I now change a file using the 'uci' command, a tmp
>> file
>> is created under '/etc/config'.
>> Is this correct? Or do we have a problem there.
>
> AFAIK tmp config are written in /tmp...
But if I read this correctly, what inotifywait does, then these are
events that happen in '/etc/config' and not in '/tmp'.
I have not added a inotify to '/tmp'.
I already thought that these are temporary files.
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