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fanotify.7: fanotify notifies only events generated on the same mount 

Unfortunately, fanotify does not inform listeners for all paths
under which a touched filesystem object is visible, but only the
listener using the same path as the process touching the
filesystem object.

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Heinrich Schuchardt 2014-10-28 12:52:42 +01:00 committed by Michael Kerrisk
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@ -488,6 +488,14 @@ In this case, events are lost.
As of Linux 3.17,
the following bugs exist:
.IP * 3
On Linux a file system object may be accessible through multiple paths,
e.g. a part of the file system may be remounted using
.B mount (8)
--bind.
A listener that marked a mount will only be notified of events that were
triggered for a file system object using the same mount.
Any other event will pass unnoticed.
.IP *
Calling
.BR fallocate (2)
does not create any fanotify events.