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@arp242 arp242 commented Oct 22, 2023

On macOS it seems that sometimes an event with Ident=0 is delivered, and
no other flags/information beyond that, even though we never saw such a
file descriptor. For example in TestWatchSymlink/277 (usually at the
end, but sometimes sooner):

	# Okay, expected
	CREATE               "/foo"
	REMOVE               "/foo"
	CREATE               "/apple"
	CREATE               "/pear"
	RENAME               "/apple"
	REMOVE               "/pear"

	# One or more write events without any ident or information?!
	WRITE                ""

Printing some debug in the loop right after we receive events shows:

	unix.Kevent_t{Ident:0x2a, Filter:-4, Flags:0x25, Fflags:0x2, Data:0, Udata:(*uint8)(nil)}
	unix.Kevent_t{Ident:0x0,  Filter:-4, Flags:0x25, Fflags:0x2, Data:0, Udata:(*uint8)(nil)}

The first is a normal event, the second with Ident 0. No error flag, no
data, no ... nothing.

I read a bit through bsd/kern_event.c from the xnu source, but I don't
really see an obvious location where this is triggered – this doesn't
seem intentional, but idk...

Technically fd 0 is a valid descriptor, so only skip it if there's no
path, and if we're on macOS.

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arp242 commented Oct 22, 2023

To be honest I'm not entirely sure if this is actually the right thing to do ... Probably more testing is needed to determine exactly what's going on.

On macOS it seems that sometimes an event with Ident=0 is delivered, and
no other flags/information beyond that, even though we never saw such a
file descriptor. For example in TestWatchSymlink/277 (usually at the
end, but sometimes sooner):

	# Okay, expected
	CREATE               "/foo"
	REMOVE               "/foo"
	CREATE               "/apple"
	CREATE               "/pear"
	RENAME               "/apple"
	REMOVE               "/pear"

	# One or more write events without any ident or information?!
	WRITE                ""

Printing some debug in the loop right after we receive events shows:

	unix.Kevent_t{Ident:0x2a, Filter:-4, Flags:0x25, Fflags:0x2, Data:0, Udata:(*uint8)(nil)}
	unix.Kevent_t{Ident:0x0,  Filter:-4, Flags:0x25, Fflags:0x2, Data:0, Udata:(*uint8)(nil)}

The first is a normal event, the second with Ident 0. No error flag, no
data, no ... nothing.

I read a bit through bsd/kern_event.c from the xnu source, but I don't
really see an obvious location where this is triggered – this doesn't
seem intentional, but idk...

Technically fd 0 is a valid descriptor, so only skip it if there's no
path, and if we're on macOS.
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