Hi Michael! On Thu 23-04-20 12:36:26, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > 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). Yeah, the manpage is wrong AFAICT. FAN_Q_OVERFLOW is not accepted in the input mask. It is only output event flag. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR
