Hi Amir, On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 at 10:03, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > With fanotify_init(2) flag FAN_REPORT_FID, the group identifies > filesystem objects by file handles in a single event info record of type > FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_FID. > > We indend to add support for new fanotify_init(2) flags for which the > group identifies filesystem objects by file handles and add more event > info record types. > > To that end, start by changing the language of the man page to refer > to a "group that identifies filesystem objects by file handles" instead > of referring to the FAN_REPORT_FID flag and document the extended event > format structure in a more generic manner that allows more than a single > event info record and not only a record of type FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_FID. > > Clarify that the object identified by the file handle refers to the > directory in directory entry modification events. > > Remove a note about directory entry modification events and monitoring > a mount point that I found to be too confusing and out of context. If I understand correctly, this patch is just about improving the description of existing behavior, in preparation for later patches that describe new behavior (to be added in 5.9), and once you've revised after Matthew's comments I can apply immediately, right? Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
