the fanotify.7 and inotify.7 manpages do not describe whether fallocate.2 will create events (FAN_MODIFY, IN_MODIFY). Looking at fs/open.c no event seems to be created. I ran a test program and could not detect any FAN_MODIFY event. Heinrich Schuchardt (3): fanotify.7: bugs still not fixed in 3.17 fanotify.7: fallocate creates no events inotify.7: fallocate does not trigger inotify events man7/fanotify.7 | 6 +++++- man7/inotify.7 | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 2.1.0 -- 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