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| author | nixiaoming <nixiaoming@huawei.com> | 2018-11-17 18:32:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2019-02-26 17:39:00 +0100 |
| commit | ebfb6feee6d255957a1d7b9a47a9a8ffac730153 (patch) | |
| tree | 12f84f02d2bb370e7778991446673998c6874411 | |
| parent | 953d1e0792e4772e0fe56c6b0547871ee690438e (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-ebfb6feee6d255957a1d7b9a47a9a8ffac730153.tar.gz | |
fanotify_init.2, fanotify.7: Document FAN_REPORT_TID
fanotify_init.2: add new flag FAN_REPORT_TID
fanotify.7: update description of member pid in
struct fanotify_event_metadata
Signed-off-by: nixiaoming <nixiaoming@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/fanotify_init.2 | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/fanotify.7 | 8 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man2/fanotify_init.2 b/man2/fanotify_init.2 index e3a0b98540..94d0292f62 100644 --- a/man2/fanotify_init.2 +++ b/man2/fanotify_init.2 @@ -142,6 +142,10 @@ Remove the limit of 8192 marks. Use of this flag requires the .B CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability. +.TP +.BR FAN_REPORT_TID " (since Linux 4.20)" +.\" commit d0a6a87e40da49cfc7954c491d3065a25a641b29 +Report thread id (TID) instead of process id (PID). .PP The .I event_f_flags diff --git a/man7/fanotify.7 b/man7/fanotify.7 index 74f5105df6..05af2d3ab5 100644 --- a/man7/fanotify.7 +++ b/man7/fanotify.7 @@ -223,7 +223,13 @@ Hence, when the receiver of the fanotify event accesses the notified file or directory using this file descriptor, no additional events will be created. .TP .I pid -This is the ID of the process that caused the event. +If flag +.B FAN_REPORT_TID +was set in +.BR fanotify_init (2), +this is the TID of the thread that caused the event. +Otherwise, this the PID of the process that caused the event. +.PP A program listening to fanotify events can compare this PID to the PID returned by .BR getpid (2), |