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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
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-.TH INOTIFY 7 2006-02-07 "Linux 2.6.15" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH INOTIFY 7 2007-06-03 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 inotify \- monitoring file system events
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -126,6 +126,16 @@ the length of each
 .I inotify_event
 structure is thus
 .IR "sizeof(inotify_event)+len" .
+
+The behaviour when the buffer given to 
+.BR read (2)
+is too small to return information about the next event depends 
+on the kernel version: in kernels before 2.6.21,
+.BR read (2)
+returns 0; since kernel 2.6.21,
+.BR read (2)
+fails with the error
+.BR EINVAL .
 .SS inotify events
 The
 .BR inotify_add_watch (2)