LDP
/
man-pages
mirror of https://github.com/mkerrisk/man-pages
0
1
Fork 0
Code Releases Activity

inotify.7: Document IN_EXCL_UNLINK 

This flag was added in Linux 2.6.36.
See kernel commit 8c1934c8d70b22ca8333b216aec6c7d09fdbd6a6.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
This commit is contained in:
Michael Kerrisk 2010-11-06 07:40:29 +01:00
parent fe252985b7
commit b3ad760956
1 changed files with 17 additions and 3 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

20
man7/inotify.7
View File

@ -23,9 +23,7 @@
.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
.\"
.\" FIXME 2.6.36 adds IN_EXCL_UNLINK
.\"
.TH INOTIFY 7 2010-09-27 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH INOTIFY 7 2010-10-06 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
inotify \- monitoring file system events
.SH DESCRIPTION
@ -256,6 +254,22 @@ when calling
.BR IN_DONT_FOLLOW " (since Linux 2.6.15)"
Don't dereference \fIpathname\fP if it is a symbolic link.
.TP
.B IN_EXCL_UNLINK " (since Linux 2.6.36)"
.\" commit 8c1934c8d70b22ca8333b216aec6c7d09fdbd6a6
By default, when watching events on the children of a directory,
events are generated for children even after they have been unlinked
from the directory.
This can result in large numbers of uninteresting events for
some applications (e.g., if watching
.IR /tmp ,
in which many applications create temporary files whose
names are immediately unlinked).
Specifying
.B IN_EXCL_UNLINK
changes the default behavior,
so that events are not generated for children after
they have been unlinked from the watched directory.
.TP
.B IN_MASK_ADD
Add (OR) events to watch mask for this pathname if
it already exists (instead of replacing mask).