fanotify.7: Minor fixes after feedback from Matthew Bobrowski

[thirdparty/man-pages.git] / man7 / fanotify.7

diff --git a/man7/fanotify.7 b/man7/fanotify.7
index dab2b33393c1ec7638a9f3bf46a6a12ab34f3198..82f6fa78639204c7e0811b6837f62c08faf9f642 100644 (file)
--- a/man7/fanotify.7
+++ b/man7/fanotify.7
@@ -921,13 +921,13 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 The second program is an example of fanotify being used with
 .B FAN_REPORT_FID
 enabled.
-The program attempts to mark the filesystem object that is passed as
+The program marks the filesystem object that is passed as
 a command-line argument
 and waits until an event of type
 .B FAN_CREATE
 has occurred.
-Depending on whether a file or directory is created depends on what mask
-is returned in the event mask.
+The event mask indicates which type of filesystem object\(emeither
+a file or a directory\(emwas created".
 Once all events have been read from the buffer and processed accordingly,
 the program simply terminates.
 .PP
@@ -1067,8 +1067,8 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
            an event you can use the struct file_handle that\(aqs provided
            within the fanotify_event_info_fid in conjunction with the
            open_by_handle_at(2) system call. A check for ESTALE is done
-           to accommodate for the situation where the file handle was
-           deleted for the object prior to this system call. */
+           to accommodate for the situation where the file handle for the
+           object was deleted prior to this system call. */
 
         event_fd = open_by_handle_at(AT_FDCWD, file_handle, O_RDONLY);
         if (ret == \-1) {