From: Amir Goldstein Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:21:09 +0000 (+0200) Subject: fanotify.7: fix outdated description X-Git-Tag: man-pages-5.10~39 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=af5a2ff87ec2be8e233ddf19299d4c5d6c74cd7c;p=thirdparty%2Fman-pages.git fanotify.7: fix outdated description Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- diff --git a/man7/fanotify.7 b/man7/fanotify.7 index c4f5397e4b..5804a1f30d 100644 --- a/man7/fanotify.7 +++ b/man7/fanotify.7 @@ -29,11 +29,12 @@ fanotify \- monitoring filesystem events The fanotify API provides notification and interception of filesystem events. Use cases include virus scanning and hierarchical storage management. -Currently, only a limited set of events is supported. -In particular, there is no support for create, delete, and move events. +In the original fanotify API, only a limited set of events was supported. +In particular, there was no support for create, delete, and move events. +The support for those events was added in Linux 5.1. (See .BR inotify (7) -for details of an API that does notify those events.) +for details of an API that did notify those events pre Linux 5.1.) .PP Additional capabilities compared to the .BR inotify (7)