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inotify_add_watch.2: Clarify that the target of a watch is an i-node
The target of a watch is an i-node, not a pathname. Clarify the text to prevent the reader possibly misunderstanding that establishing watches by two different links to the same file might create different watch descriptors. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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A successful call to
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.BR inotify_add_watch ()
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returns the unique watch descriptor associated with
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.I pathname
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for this inotify instance.
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If
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.I pathname
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returns a unique watch descriptor for this inotify instance,
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for the filesystem object that corresponds to
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.IR pathname .
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If the filesystem object
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was not previously being watched by this inotify instance,
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then the watch descriptor is newly allocated.
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If
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.I pathname
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was already being watched, then the descriptor
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If the filesystem object was already being watched
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(perhaps via a different link to the same object), then the descriptor
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for the existing watch is returned.
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The watch descriptor is returned by later
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