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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-06-17 10:51:52 +0000
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
.\" Copyright (C) 2013, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
.\"
.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft
-.TH fanotify_init 2 2023-07-08 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH fanotify_init 2 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
.SH NAME
fanotify_init \- create and initialize fanotify group
.SH LIBRARY
@@ -11,17 +11,17 @@ Standard C library
.nf
.BR "#include <fcntl.h>" " /* Definition of " O_* " constants */"
.B #include <sys/fanotify.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "int fanotify_init(unsigned int " flags ", unsigned int " event_f_flags );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
For an overview of the fanotify API, see
.BR fanotify (7).
-.PP
+.P
.BR fanotify_init ()
initializes a new fanotify group and returns a file descriptor for the event
queue associated with the group.
-.PP
+.P
The file descriptor is used in calls to
.BR fanotify_mark (2)
to specify the files, directories, mounts, or filesystems for which fanotify
@@ -32,25 +32,25 @@ Other events can be used to determine whether
another application is permitted to access a file or directory.
Permission to access filesystem objects is granted by writing to the file
descriptor.
-.PP
+.P
Multiple programs may be using the fanotify interface at the same time to
monitor the same files.
-.PP
+.P
The number of fanotify groups per user is limited.
See
.BR fanotify (7)
for details about this limit.
-.PP
+.P
The
.I flags
argument contains a multi-bit field defining the notification class of the
listening application and further single bit fields specifying the behavior
of the file descriptor.
-.PP
+.P
If multiple listeners for permission events exist,
the notification class is used to establish the sequence
in which the listeners receive the events.
-.PP
+.P
Only one of the following notification classes may be specified in
.IR flags :
.TP
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ It does not need to be specified.
This value only allows the receipt of events notifying that a file has been
accessed.
Permission decisions before the file is accessed are not possible.
-.PP
+.P
Listeners with different notification classes will receive events in the
order
.BR FAN_CLASS_PRE_CONTENT ,
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ order
.BR FAN_CLASS_NOTIF .
The order of notification for listeners in the same notification class
is undefined.
-.PP
+.P
The following bits can additionally be set in
.IR flags :
.TP
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ so this restriction may eventually be lifted.
For more details on information records,
see
.BR fanotify (7).
-.PP
+.P
The
.I event_f_flags
argument
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ This value allows only write access.
.TP
.B O_RDWR
This value allows read and write access.
-.PP
+.P
Additional bits can be set in
.IR event_f_flags .
The most useful values are:
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ See the description of the
flag in
.BR open (2)
for reasons why this may be useful.
-.PP
+.P
The following are also allowable:
.BR O_APPEND ,
.BR O_DSYNC ,
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ The
.B O_CLOEXEC
is ignored when passed in
.IR event_f_flags .
-.PP
+.P
The following bug was present before Linux 3.14:
.IP \[bu] 3
.\" Fixed by commit 48149e9d3a7e924010a0daab30a6197b7d7b6580