fanotify.7: Minor tweaks to Heinrich's patch

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2014-05-07 05:49:39 +02:00
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commit 3302241970
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@ -113,11 +113,12 @@ whether permission for a file access shall be granted.
For these events, the recipient must write a response which decides whether
access is granted or not.
An event is removed from the event queue of the fanotify group when it has been
read.
An event is removed from the event queue of the fanotify group
when it has been read.
Permission events that have been read are kept in an internal list of the
fanotify group until either a permission decision has been taken by writing to
the fanotify file descriptor or the fanotify file descriptor is closed.
fanotify group until either a permission decision has been taken by
writing to the fanotify file descriptor or the fanotify file descriptor
is closed.
.SS Reading fanotify events
Calling
.BR read (2)
@ -401,8 +402,8 @@ in the response structure is not valid.
The file descriptor
.I fd
in the response structure is not valid.
This may occur when a response for the permission event already has been
written before.
This may occur when a response for the permission event has already been
written.
.SH VERSIONS
The fanotify API was introduced in version 2.6.36 of the Linux kernel and
enabled in version 2.6.37.