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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2018-05-06 10:22:13 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2018-05-06 10:22:13 +0200 |
| commit | 390795d76a958b2811c695628bb04eae0e69ae7f (patch) | |
| tree | ca0ac08157e745502072bef4ad022bec8eec98f7 /man7 | |
| parent | 12507e51a426d168c48defc67d3ba223371a73b2 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-390795d76a958b2811c695628bb04eae0e69ae7f.tar.gz | |
inotify.7: Note ENOTDIR error that can occur for IN_ONLYDIR
Note ENOTDIR error that occurs when requesting a watch on a
nondirectory with IN_ONLYDIR.
Reported-by: Paul Millar <paul.millar@desy.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/inotify.7 | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man7/inotify.7 b/man7/inotify.7 index 7e5a5b4df8..85c05a9bcd 100644 --- a/man7/inotify.7 +++ b/man7/inotify.7 @@ -358,7 +358,12 @@ watch list. .BR IN_ONLYDIR " (since Linux 2.6.15)" Watch .I pathname -only if it is a directory. +only if it is a directory; +the error +.B ENOTDIR +results if +.I pathname +is not a directory. Using this flag provides an application with a race-free way of ensuring that the monitored object is a directory. .RE |