fanotify_init.2, fanotify_mark.2, fanotify.7: Minor fixes to Matthew Bobrowski's...

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

diff --git a/man2/fanotify_init.2 b/man2/fanotify_init.2
index ece4ae6a6aa59ef186f1ee612b38e1bf08a9c3fa..55dd888d3f43a0afa4a44d6697652d695b26fb27 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/fanotify_init.2
+++ b/man2/fanotify_init.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" Copyright (C) 2013, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
+\" Copyright (C) 2013, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
 .\"
 .\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM)
 .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ Additionally, it may be used for applications that are interested in
 directory entry events, such as
 .BR FAN_CREATE ,
 .BR FAN_ATTRIB ,
-.BR FAN_MOVE
+.BR FAN_MOVE ,
 and
 .BR FAN_DELETE
 for example.

diff --git a/man2/fanotify_mark.2 b/man2/fanotify_mark.2
index ce7aa9804e8d3191fa439f9e0dfc79bfeed33726..24a3085fffe8edfd4a34b4dbe574a94b47a720b4 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/fanotify_mark.2
+++ b/man2/fanotify_mark.2
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ or
 is required.
 .TP
 .B FAN_ONDIR
-Create events for directories \(em for example, when
+Create events for directories\(emfor example, when
 .BR opendir (3),
 .BR readdir (3)
 (but see BUGS), and
@@ -252,15 +252,17 @@ file descriptor has been initialized with the flag
 In the context of directory entry events, such as
 .BR FAN_CREATE ,
 .BR FAN_DELETE ,
-.BR FAN_MOVED_FROM
+.BR FAN_MOVED_FROM ,
 and
 .BR FAN_MOVED_TO
 for example, specifying the flag
 .BR FAN_ONDIR
 is required in order to create events when subdirectory entries are
-modified (i.e. mkdir/rmdir).
-Subdirectory entry modification events will never be merged with non
-subdirectory entry modification events.
+modified (i.e.,
+.BR mkdir (2)/
+.BR rmdir (2)).
+Subdirectory entry modification events will never be merged with
+nonsubdirectory entry modification events.
 This flag is never reported individually within an event and is always
 supplied in conjunction with another event type.
 .TP
@@ -396,10 +398,12 @@ do not specify a directory.
 .B EXDEV
 The object indicated by
 .I pathname
-resides within a filesystem subvolume (e.g. btrfs) which uses a different
+resides within a filesystem subvolume (e.g.,
+.BR btrfs (5))
+which uses a different
 .I fsid
 than its root superblock.
-This error can only be returned when an fanotify file descriptor returned
+This error can be returned only when an fanotify file descriptor returned
 by
 .BR fanotify_init (2)
 has been created with
@@ -410,8 +414,9 @@ The object indicated by
 .I pathname
 is not associated with a filesystem that supports
 .I fsid
-(e.g. tmpfs).
-This error can only be returned when an fanotify file descriptor returned
+(e.g.,
+.BR tmpfs (5)).
+This error can be returned only when an fanotify file descriptor returned
 by
 .BR fanotify_init (2)
 has been created with
@@ -422,7 +427,7 @@ The object indicated by
 .I pathname
 is associated with a filesystem that does not support the encoding of file
 handles.
-This error can only be returned when an fanotify file descriptor returned
+This error can be returned only when an fanotify file descriptor returned
 by
 .BR fanotify_init (2)
 has been created with

diff --git a/man7/fanotify.7 b/man7/fanotify.7
index 788f23f1d61fc04294300a86834274cbe3494563..577c3f8ff04694ccced87541f78255edfd99b554 100644 (file)
--- a/man7/fanotify.7
+++ b/man7/fanotify.7
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ Notification events are merely informative
 and require no action to be taken by
 the receiving application with the exception being that the file
 descriptor provided within a generic event must be closed.
-The closing of file descriptors for each event only applies to
+The closing of file descriptors for each event applies only to
 applications that have initialized fanotify without using
 .BR FAN_REPORT_FID
 (see below).
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ struct fanotify_event_metadata {
 .EE
 .in
 .PP
-In the instance that
+In the case where
 .BR FAN_REPORT_FID
 is supplied as one of the flags to
 .BR fanotify_init (2),
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ This is a structure of type
 It is a generic header that contains information used to describe
 additional information attached to the event.
 For example, when an fanotify file descriptor is created using
-.B FAN_REPORT_FID
+.BR FAN_REPORT_FID ,
 the
 .I info_type
 field of this header is set to
@@ -422,21 +422,22 @@ This is a variable length structure of type
 .IR file_handle .
 It is an opaque handle that corresponds to a specified object on a
 filesystem as returned by
-.BR name_to_handle_at (2) .
+.BR name_to_handle_at (2).
 It can be used to uniquely identify a file on a filesystem and can be
 passed as an argument to
-.BR open_by_handle_at (2) .
+.BR open_by_handle_at (2).
 Note that for directory entry events, such as
 .BR FAN_CREATE ,
 .BR FAN_DELETE ,
-.BR FAN_MOVE
+and
+.BR FAN_MOVE ,
 the
 .IR file_handle
 describes the modified directory and not the created/deleted/moved child
 object.
 The events
 .BR FAN_ATTRIB ,
-.BR FAN_DELETE_SELF
+.BR FAN_DELETE_SELF ,
 and
 .BR FAN_MOVE_SELF
 will carry the
@@ -716,7 +717,7 @@ event occurred.
 Execution of the program ends when the user presses the ENTER key.
 .PP
 The second example program output was captured from fanotify_fid.
-There are two discrete invocations to this program with each invocation
+There are two discrete invocations of this program, with each invocation
 accommodating a different action performed on a watched object.
 This first session shows a mark being placed on
 .IR /home/user .
@@ -1069,7 +1070,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 
         snprintf(procfd_path, sizeof(procfd_path), "/proc/self/fd/%d", event_fd);
 
-        /* Retreive and print the path of the modified dentry */
+        /* Retrieve and print the path of the modified dentry */
         path_len = readlink(procfd_path, path, sizeof(path) - 1);
         if (path_len == -1) {
             perror("readlink");