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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2014-06-28 07:38:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2014-06-28 07:38:40 +0200 |
| commit | 7499e6bc8ec1318463533c2cb680dbd9379d7583 (patch) | |
| tree | d3359b16c3580844e06556e288b239284051fcdb | |
| parent | 425ad621fc635d20953a3c9e2af97990ff4d10e0 (diff) | |
inotify_add_watch.2: Clarify that the target of a watch is an i-node
The target of a watch is an i-node, not a pathname. Clarify
the text to prevent the reader possibly misunderstanding
that establishing watches by two different links to the same
file might create different watch descriptors.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/inotify_add_watch.2 | 14 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/man2/inotify_add_watch.2 b/man2/inotify_add_watch.2 index 8c50b4042..d35df05bb 100644 --- a/man2/inotify_add_watch.2 +++ b/man2/inotify_add_watch.2 @@ -54,16 +54,14 @@ for a description of the bits that can be set in A successful call to .BR inotify_add_watch () -returns the unique watch descriptor associated with -.I pathname -for this inotify instance. -If -.I pathname +returns a unique watch descriptor for this inotify instance, +for the filesystem object that corresponds to +.IR pathname . +If the filesystem object was not previously being watched by this inotify instance, then the watch descriptor is newly allocated. -If -.I pathname -was already being watched, then the descriptor +If the filesystem object was already being watched +(perhaps via a different link to the same object), then the descriptor for the existing watch is returned. The watch descriptor is returned by later |