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fanotify.7: Since Linux 3.19, fallocate(2) generates FAN_MODIFY events 

Reported-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2015-04-30 12:11:53 +02:00
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@ -485,6 +485,17 @@ Monitoring mounts offers the capability to monitor a whole directory tree.
The event queue can overflow.
In this case, events are lost.
.SH BUGS
Before Linux 3.19,
.BR fallocate (2)
did not generate fanotify events.
Since Linux 3.19,
.\" commit 820c12d5d6c0890bc93dd63893924a13041fdc35
calls to
.BR fallocate (2)
generate
.B FAN_MODIFY
events.
As of Linux 3.17,
the following bugs exist:
.IP * 3
@ -497,10 +508,6 @@ A listener that marked a mount will be notified only of events that were
triggered for a filesystem object using the same mount.
Any other event will pass unnoticed.
.IP *
Calling
.BR fallocate (2)
does not create any fanotify events.
.IP *
.\" FIXME . A patch was proposed.
When an event is generated,
no check is made to see whether the user ID of the