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@@ -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)
@@ -1211,7 +1212,7 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
.BR fanotify_mark (2),
.BR inotify (7)
.SH COLOPHON
-This page is part of release 5.09 of the Linux
+This page is part of release 5.10 of the Linux
.I man-pages
project.
A description of the project,