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-rw-r--r--man2/fanotify_init.22
-rw-r--r--man2/fanotify_mark.24
-rw-r--r--man7/fanotify.73
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man2/fanotify_init.2 b/man2/fanotify_init.2
index 55dd888d3f..6c3b13280c 100644
--- a/man2/fanotify_init.2
+++ b/man2/fanotify_init.2
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ example.
.BR FAN_REPORT_FID " (since Linux 5.1)"
.\" commit a8b13aa20afb69161b5123b4f1acc7ea0a03d360
This value allows the receipt of events which contain additional information
-about the underlying object correlated to an event.
+about the underlying filesystem object correlated to an event.
An additional structure encapsulates the information about the object and is
included alongside the generic event metadata structure.
The file descriptor that is used to represent the object correlated to an
diff --git a/man2/fanotify_mark.2 b/man2/fanotify_mark.2
index 24a3085fff..facd9b9747 100644
--- a/man2/fanotify_mark.2
+++ b/man2/fanotify_mark.2
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ and
do not specify a directory.
.TP
.B EXDEV
-The object indicated by
+The filesystem object indicated by
.I pathname
resides within a filesystem subvolume (e.g.,
.BR btrfs (5))
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ has been created with
.BR FAN_REPORT_FID .
.TP
.B ENODEV
-The object indicated by
+The filesystem object indicated by
.I pathname
is not associated with a filesystem that supports
.I fsid
diff --git a/man7/fanotify.7 b/man7/fanotify.7
index 577c3f8ff0..28c728996c 100644
--- a/man7/fanotify.7
+++ b/man7/fanotify.7
@@ -696,7 +696,8 @@ The second program (fanotify_fid.c) is an example of fanotify being used
with
.B FAN_REPORT_FID
enabled.
-It attempts to mark the object that is passed as a command-line argument
+It attempts to mark the filesystem object that is passed as
+a command-line argument
and waits until an event of type
.B FAN_CREATE
has occurred.