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Diffstat (limited to 'man7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/fanotify.7 | 17 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/man7/fanotify.7 b/man7/fanotify.7 index 7c72a29964..1dea4c13cd 100644 --- a/man7/fanotify.7 +++ b/man7/fanotify.7 @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ structure within the read buffer: struct fanotify_event_info_fid { struct fanotify_event_info_header hdr; __kernel_fsid_t fsid; - unsigned char file_handle[0]; + unsigned char handle[]; }; .EE .in @@ -576,8 +576,9 @@ and contains the same value as when calling .BR statfs (2). .TP -.I file_handle -This is a variable length structure of type struct file_handle. +.I handle +This field contains a variable-length structure of type +.IR "struct file_handle" . It is an opaque handle that corresponds to a specified object on a filesystem as returned by .BR name_to_handle_at (2). @@ -601,14 +602,14 @@ if the value of field is .BR FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_FID , the -.I file_handle +.I handle identifies the object correlated to the event. If the value of .I info_type field is .BR FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_DFID , the -.I file_handle +.I handle identifies the directory object correlated to the event or the parent directory of a non-directory object correlated to the event. If the value of @@ -616,7 +617,7 @@ If the value of field is .BR FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_DFID_NAME , the -.I file_handle +.I handle identifies the same directory object that would be reported with .B FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_DFID and the file handle is followed by a null terminated string that identifies the @@ -796,9 +797,9 @@ but not all kinds of error types are reported by all filesystems. .PP Errors not directly related to a file (i.e. super block corruption) are reported with an invalid -.IR file_handle . +.IR handle . For these errors, the -.I file_handle +.I handle will have the field .I handle_type set to |