Re: [PATCH] fanotify.7: fix outdated description

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On Wed 30-12-20 15:17:29, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Ping!

I've already sent it and Steve has acked it [1]. So the ball is on your
side ;).

								Honza

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/4619055.31r3eYUQgx@x2

-- 
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR



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