From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
To: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Matthew Bobrowski <mbobrowski@mbobrowski.org>,
linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] fanotify.7: fix outdated description
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 17:21:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201124152109.30027-1-amir73il@gmail.com> (raw)
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
---
man7/fanotify.7 | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man7/fanotify.7 b/man7/fanotify.7
index c4f5397e4..5804a1f30 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)
--
2.17.1
next reply other threads:[~2020-11-24 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-24 15:21 Amir Goldstein [this message]
2020-11-25 11:53 ` [PATCH] fanotify.7: fix outdated description Jan Kara
2020-11-26 9:48 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-11-26 13:29 ` Jan Kara
2020-12-30 14:17 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-01-04 11:55 ` Jan Kara
2021-01-04 13:29 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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