Hello Amir, On 4/20/20 8:42 PM, Amir Goldstein wrote: > Some of the new event types that were added in v5.1 along with init flag > FAN_REPORT_FID are not eligable for reporting to a directory watching > with FAN_EVENT_ON_CHILD. > > Document the events that cannot be generated on children of a watching > parent. > > Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Matthew Bobrowski <mbobrowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks. Patch applied. Cheers, Michael > --- > man2/fanotify_mark.2 | 15 ++++++++++++++- > 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/man2/fanotify_mark.2 b/man2/fanotify_mark.2 > index 687e20f4a..7fbcd5e36 100644 > --- a/man2/fanotify_mark.2 > +++ b/man2/fanotify_mark.2 > @@ -314,8 +314,21 @@ Events for the immediate children of marked directories shall be created. > The flag has no effect when marking mounts and filesystems. > Note that events are not generated for children of the subdirectories > of marked directories. > +More specifically, the directory entry modification events > +.BR FAN_CREATE , > +.BR FAN_DELETE , > +.BR FAN_MOVED_FROM > +and > +.BR FAN_MOVED_TO > +are not generated for any entry modifications performed inside subdirectories > +of marked directories. > +Note that the events > +.BR FAN_DELETE_SELF > +and > +.BR FAN_MOVE_SELF > +are not generated for children of marked directories. > To monitor complete directory trees it is necessary to mark the relevant > -mount. > +mount or filesystem. > .PP > The following composed values are defined: > .TP > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
