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inotify.7: Minor fixes to Henry Wilson's patch 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2019-02-26 15:45:07 +01:00
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@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ is not a directory.
Using this flag provides an application with a race-free way of
ensuring that the monitored object is a directory.
.TP
.BR IN_MASK_CREATE " (from Linux 4.18)"
.BR IN_MASK_CREATE " (since Linux 4.18)"
Watch
.I pathname
only if it does not already have a watch associated with it;
@ -380,12 +380,12 @@ the error
.B EEXIST
results if
.I pathname
already is being watched.
is already being watched.
Using this flag provides an application with a way of ensuring
that new watches do not modify existing ones. This is useful
because multiple paths may refer to the same inode, and
that new watches do not modify existing ones.
This is useful because multiple paths may refer to the same inode, and
multiple calls to
.B inotify_add_watch (2)
.BR inotify_add_watch (2)
without this flag may clobber existing watch masks.
.RE
.PP