Kernel bugzilla 198569: fanotify_mark() and FAN_Q_OVERFLOW

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Hi Heinrich,

Would you be able to take a look at
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198569

It relates to some text you added to the fanotify_mark(2) manual page:

       FAN_Q_OVERFLOW
              Create an event when an overflow of the event queue occurs.
              The size of the event queue is limited to 16384 entries  if
              FAN_UNLIMITED_QUEUE is not set in fanotify_init(2).

This was in the following commit

[[
commit 5d730f864a6603b090cd1078668cede05d02b8c4
Author: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@xxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Nov 8 23:13:38 2016 +0100

    fanotify_mark.2: Mention FAN_Q_OVERFLOW

    To receive overflow events it is necessary to set this bit
    in fanotify_mark().
]]

As far as I can see, FAN_Q_OVERFLOW (test program, reading the kernel
source) is only an output flag. But on the other hand, I know you are
generally careful, so I wonder if something changed (though, at a
quick glance, I could not see evidence that it has).

Thanks,

Michael

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