From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] fanotify_init.2, fanotify_mark.2: ENOSYS if not available Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 07:49:48 +0200 Message-ID: <5361E07C.9020608@gmail.com> References: <1398890902-6696-1-git-send-email-xypron.glpk@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1398890902-6696-1-git-send-email-xypron.glpk-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Heinrich Schuchardt Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 04/30/2014 10:48 PM, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > Both fanotify_init and fanotify_mark return ENOSYS, if the kernel > was configured without setting CONFIG_FANOTIFY=y. > > I tested both functions with an appropriately configured kernel 3.14.2. Thanks, Heinrich. Applied. Cheers, Michael > Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt > --- > man2/fanotify_init.2 | 7 +++++++ > man2/fanotify_mark.2 | 7 +++++++ > 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/man2/fanotify_init.2 b/man2/fanotify_init.2 > index e54fe7e..4824378 100644 > --- a/man2/fanotify_init.2 > +++ b/man2/fanotify_init.2 > @@ -191,6 +191,13 @@ The number of fanotify groups of the user exceeds 128. > .B ENOMEM > The allocation of memory for the notification group failed. > .TP > +.B ENOSYS > +This kernel does not implement > +.BR fanotify_init (). > +To make the fanotify API available, > +.B CONFIG_FANOTIFY > +has to be enabled in the Linux configuration. > +.TP > .B EPERM > The operation is not permitted because the caller lacks the > .B CAP_SYS_ADMIN > diff --git a/man2/fanotify_mark.2 b/man2/fanotify_mark.2 > index 693eff8..ad17ef8 100644 > --- a/man2/fanotify_mark.2 > +++ b/man2/fanotify_mark.2 > @@ -280,6 +280,13 @@ The number of marks exceeds the limit of 8192 and > was not specified in the call to > .BR fanotify_init (2). > .TP > +.B ENOSYS > +This kernel does not implement > +.BR fanotify_mark (). > +To make the fanotify API available, > +.B CONFIG_FANOTIFY > +has to be enabled in the Linux configuration. > +.TP > .B ENOTDIR > .I flags > contains > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html