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inotify.7: Inotify does not report events for mmap(2) and msync(2) 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.IR /dev/pts
are not monitorable with inotify.
The inotify API does not report file accesses and modifications that
may occur because of
.BR mmap (2)
and
.BR msync (2).
The inotify API identifies affected files by filename.
However, by the time an application processes an inotify event,
the filename may already have been deleted or renamed.