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| author | Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> | 2020-11-24 17:21:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-11-26 10:33:37 +0100 |
| commit | af5a2ff87ec2be8e233ddf19299d4c5d6c74cd7c (patch) | |
| tree | b083a35612a98139dcc76848b4ced359f6d76d82 /man7 | |
| parent | 32a72b3e1b99a77d1a2a2bc72668f56c607cfb0d (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-af5a2ff87ec2be8e233ddf19299d4c5d6c74cd7c.tar.gz | |
fanotify.7: fix outdated description
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/fanotify.7 | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man7/fanotify.7 b/man7/fanotify.7 index c4f5397e4b..5804a1f30d 100644 --- a/man7/fanotify.7 +++ b/man7/fanotify.7 @@ -29,11 +29,12 @@ fanotify \- monitoring filesystem events The fanotify API provides notification and interception of filesystem events. Use cases include virus scanning and hierarchical storage management. -Currently, only a limited set of events is supported. -In particular, there is no support for create, delete, and move events. +In the original fanotify API, only a limited set of events was supported. +In particular, there was no support for create, delete, and move events. +The support for those events was added in Linux 5.1. (See .BR inotify (7) -for details of an API that does notify those events.) +for details of an API that did notify those events pre Linux 5.1.) .PP Additional capabilities compared to the .BR inotify (7) |