[PATCH 2/3] fanotify_init.2: move out of place entry FAN_REPORT_FID

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It was inserted in the middle of the FAN_CLASS_ multi flags bit and
broke the multi flag documentation.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 man2/fanotify_init.2 | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man2/fanotify_init.2 b/man2/fanotify_init.2
index 0131575ab..5cfeea023 100644
--- a/man2/fanotify_init.2
+++ b/man2/fanotify_init.2
@@ -94,36 +94,6 @@ already contain their final content.
 This notification class might be used by malware detection programs, for
 example.
 .TP
-.BR FAN_REPORT_FID " (since Linux 5.1)"
-.\" commit a8b13aa20afb69161b5123b4f1acc7ea0a03d360
-This value allows the receipt of events which contain additional information
-about the underlying filesystem object correlated to an event.
-An additional structure encapsulates the information about the object and is
-included alongside the generic event metadata structure.
-The file descriptor that is used to represent the object correlated to an
-event is instead substituted with a file handle.
-It is intended for applications that may find the use of a file handle to
-identify an object more suitable than a file descriptor.
-Additionally, it may be used for applications that are interested in
-directory entry events, such as
-.BR FAN_CREATE ,
-.BR FAN_ATTRIB ,
-.BR FAN_MOVE ,
-and
-.BR FAN_DELETE
-for example.
-Note that the use of directory modification events are not supported when
-monitoring a mount point.
-The use of
-.BR FAN_CLASS_CONTENT
-or
-.BR FAN_CLASS_PRE_CONTENT
-is not permitted with this flag and will result in the error
-.BR EINVAL .
-See
-.BR fanotify (7)
-for additional information.
-.TP
 .B FAN_CLASS_NOTIF
 This is the default value.
 It does not need to be specified.
@@ -184,6 +154,36 @@ supplied to
 .BR read (2)
 (see
 .BR fanotify (7)).
+.TP
+.BR FAN_REPORT_FID " (since Linux 5.1)"
+.\" commit a8b13aa20afb69161b5123b4f1acc7ea0a03d360
+This value allows the receipt of events which contain additional information
+about the underlying filesystem object correlated to an event.
+An additional structure encapsulates the information about the object and is
+included alongside the generic event metadata structure.
+The file descriptor that is used to represent the object correlated to an
+event is instead substituted with a file handle.
+It is intended for applications that may find the use of a file handle to
+identify an object more suitable than a file descriptor.
+Additionally, it may be used for applications that are interested in
+directory entry events, such as
+.BR FAN_CREATE ,
+.BR FAN_ATTRIB ,
+.BR FAN_MOVE ,
+and
+.BR FAN_DELETE
+for example.
+Note that the use of directory modification events are not supported when
+monitoring a mount point.
+The use of
+.BR FAN_CLASS_CONTENT
+or
+.BR FAN_CLASS_PRE_CONTENT
+is not permitted with this flag and will result in the error
+.BR EINVAL .
+See
+.BR fanotify (7)
+for additional information.
 .PP
 The
 .I event_f_flags
-- 
2.17.1




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