Re: [PATCH] fanotify.7: fix outdated description

[Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>]

On Thu 26-11-20 10:48:09, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On 11/24/20 4:21 PM, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> > 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)
> 
> Thanks, Amir. Applied, with Jan's Reviewed-by.
> 
> By the way, I see that there's still no documentation for
> FAN_AUDIT/FAN_ENABLE_AUDIT, added in:
> 
>     commit de8cd83e91bc3ee212b3e6ec6e4283af9e4ab269
>     Author: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
>     Date:   Mon Oct 2 20:21:39 2017 -0400
> 
>         audit: Record fanotify access control decisions
> 
> 
> Can anyone help with that?

Thanks for a notification. If Steve doesn't beat me to it, I'll write the
doc likely next week.

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR