On 05/06/2014 08:41 PM, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > In http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-man/msg05624.html > Jan Kara proposed to clarify the deletion of events from the fanotify queue > and the occurence of ENOENT when writing to the fanotify file descriptor. Thanks, Heinrich. I've applied and added a Reviewed-by: from Jan. I've also pushed a few other fixes to the pages. I'd be happy if you could take a look at these commits in particular, to check I injected no errors: 3253bbc a4cd12a There are three other (larger) commits as well, but they are essentially wording and formatting fixes. Cheers, Michael > Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@xxxxxx> > --- > man7/fanotify.7 | 11 ++++++----- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man7/fanotify.7 b/man7/fanotify.7 > index 182d2d7..bce70ac 100644 > --- a/man7/fanotify.7 > +++ b/man7/fanotify.7 > @@ -113,10 +113,11 @@ whether permission for a file access shall be granted. > For these events, the recipient must write a response which decides whether > access is granted or not. > > -Queue entries for notification events are removed when the event has been > +An event is removed from the event queue of the fanotify group when it has been > read. > -Queue entries for permission events are removed when the permission > -decision has been taken by writing to the fanotify file descriptor. > +Permission events that have been read are kept in an internal list of the > +fanotify group until either a permission decision has been taken by writing to > +the fanotify file descriptor or the fanotify file descriptor is closed. > .SS Reading fanotify events > Calling > .BR read (2) > @@ -400,8 +401,8 @@ in the response structure is not valid. > The file descriptor > .I fd > in the response structure is not valid. > -This might occur because the file was already deleted by another thread or > -process. > +This may occur when a response for the permission event already has been > +written before. > .SH VERSIONS > The fanotify API was introduced in version 2.6.36 of the Linux kernel and > enabled in version 2.6.37. > -- 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
