Re: [PATCH] fanotify.7: fix outdated description

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On 11/26/20 2:29 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Thu 26-11-20 10:48:09, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> On 11/24/20 4:21 PM, Amir Goldstein wrote:
>>> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>  man7/fanotify.7 | 7 ++++---
>>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/man7/fanotify.7 b/man7/fanotify.7
>>> index c4f5397e4..5804a1f30 100644
>>> --- a/man7/fanotify.7
>>> +++ b/man7/fanotify.7
>>> @@ -29,11 +29,12 @@ fanotify \- monitoring filesystem events
>>>  The fanotify API provides notification and interception of
>>>  filesystem events.
>>>  Use cases include virus scanning and hierarchical storage management.
>>> -Currently, only a limited set of events is supported.
>>> -In particular, there is no support for create, delete, and move events.
>>> +In the original fanotify API, only a limited set of events was supported.
>>> +In particular, there was no support for create, delete, and move events.
>>> +The support for those events was added in Linux 5.1.
>>>  (See
>>>  .BR inotify (7)
>>> -for details of an API that does notify those events.)
>>> +for details of an API that did notify those events pre Linux 5.1.)
>>>  .PP
>>>  Additional capabilities compared to the
>>>  .BR inotify (7)
>>
>> Thanks, Amir. Applied, with Jan's Reviewed-by.
>>
>> By the way, I see that there's still no documentation for
>> FAN_AUDIT/FAN_ENABLE_AUDIT, added in:
>>
>>     commit de8cd83e91bc3ee212b3e6ec6e4283af9e4ab269
>>     Author: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>     Date:   Mon Oct 2 20:21:39 2017 -0400
>>
>>         audit: Record fanotify access control decisions
>>
>>
>> Can anyone help with that?
> 
> Thanks for a notification. If Steve doesn't beat me to it, I'll write the
> doc likely next week.

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