Hi Michael, your suggestion sounds good to me :) Ciao Felix On 21.07.2013 00:28, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > On 07/19/13 13:37, Felix_Schulte@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Hi! >> >> The documentation for inotify is a bit misleading >> (http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/inotify.7.html) >> >> It says when describing the "mask" field: >> IN_MOVED_FROM File moved out of watched directory (*). >> >> The description is not correct, since this event is also fired (on >> read()) when a file is moved *within* the same directory (to a new name) >> and is explicitly *not* *moved out* of the directory. >> >> It's not a big deal, of course, I just was confused about it recently. > > Hello Felix, > > I agree, it could be clearer. I revised the text to read: > > IN_MOVED_FROM Generated for the directory containing the > old filename when a file is renamed (*). > IN_MOVED_TO Generated for the directory containing the > new filename when a file is renamed (*). > > Okay? > > Cheers, > > Michael > Firmensitz: Muenchen Amtsgericht: AG Muenchen Handelsregister: HRB 144340 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Timothy James Daly, Jonathan Park, Martin Stecher Bankverbindung: ABN-Amro Bank N.V. Konto 671 211 9006 UST-ID: DE168122444 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
