linux-kernel - Re: inotify SIGIO documentation for inotify.7 man page

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Date:	Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:45:50 +0200
From:	"Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@...glemail.com>
To:	"Dmitry Antipov" <antipov@....rtsoft.ru>
Cc:	"Robert Love" <rlove@...gle.com>,
	"John McCutchan" <ttb@...tacle.dhs.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: inotify SIGIO documentation for inotify.7 man page

Hey Dmitry,

Ping!

Cheers,

Michael

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Michael Kerrisk
<mtk.manpages@...glemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
>
> I don't think I got notification of the 2.6.25 API change to inotify from
> you.  Please CC me on API changes.
>
> The following is my attempt to document the SIGIO feature that is new in
> 2.6.25.  Does this look okay to you?
>
>       Since Linux 2.6.25,  signal-driven  I/O  notification  is
>       available  for  inotify file descriptors; see the discus-
>       sion of F_SETFL (for setting the O_ASYNC flag), F_SETOWN,
>       and   F_SETSIG  in  fcntl(2).   The  siginfo_t  structure
>       (described in sigaction(2)) that is passed to the  signal
>       handler has the following fields set: si_fd is set to the
>       inotify file descriptor number; si_signo is  set  to  the
>       signal  number;  si_code is set to POLL_IN; and POLLIN is
>       set in si_band.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
>
> --
> Michael Kerrisk
> Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project
> http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
> Want to report a man-pages bug?  Look here:
> http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html
>
>
>



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