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fanotify.7: Rework text on close() 

Closing the fanotify FD was discussed in two places.
Merge them into one location, and discard redundant text.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2014-04-25 10:53:38 +02:00
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@ -95,10 +95,6 @@ Permission events are requests to the receiving application to decide whether
permission for a file access shall be granted.
For these events, the recipient must write a response which decides whether
access is granted or not.
.PP
When all file descriptors referring to the fanotify notification group are
closed, the fanotify group is released and its resources are freed for reuse by
the kernel.
.SS fanotify_mark()
The
.BR fanotify_mark (2)
@ -316,11 +312,13 @@ If access has been denied, the requesting application call will receive an
error
.BR EPERM .
.SS Closing the fanotify file descriptor
To end listening, it is sufficient to
.BR close (2)
the fanotify file descriptor.
The outstanding permission events will be set to allowed, and all resources
will be returned to the kernel.
.PP
When all file descriptors referring to the fanotify notification group are
closed, the fanotify group is released and its resources
are freed for reuse by the kernel.
Upon
.BR close (2),
outstanding permission events will be set to allowed.
.PP
The file
.I /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd>