David Howells [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

It might make sense to redesign this stuff so that watches don't hold
references on the object being watched.

I explicitly made it hold a reference so that if you place a watch on an
automounted mount it stops it from expiring.

Further, if I create a watch on something, *should* it be unmountable, just as
if I had a file open there or had chdir'd into there?

It gets trickier than that as I need a ref on the dentry on which the watch is
rooted to prevent it from getting culled.

David