[Linux] Avoid duplicating inotify watches in forked AssetBuilder processes (#5683)

The AssetProcessor on Linux uses `inotify` to monitor for file updates.
The AssetProcessor also uses a `ProcessWatcher` to launch child
AssetBuilder processes. `ProcessWatcher` accomplishes this by calling
`fork()`, which duplicates the current process, then calling `exec()`.
The `fork()` call also appears to duplicate any inotify fds. This
results in the subprocess consuming duplicate inotify watches, which is
a limited system resource (Ubunut 20 defaults
`/proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches` to 65536). The AssetProcessor
still has issues with this max, but this should free up at least half of
the uses.

Signed-off-by: Chris Burel <burelc@amazon.com>
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Chris Burel 4 years ago committed by GitHub
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@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ struct FolderRootWatch::PlatformImplementation
{
if (m_iNotifyHandle < 0)
{
m_iNotifyHandle = inotify_init();
// The CLOEXEC flag prevents the inotify watchers from copying on fork/exec
m_iNotifyHandle = inotify_init1(IN_CLOEXEC);
}
return (m_iNotifyHandle >= 0);
}

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