Re: [PATCH 1/1] Avoid having to provide a fake/invalid fd and path

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 16:30:05 +0100 xypron.glpk@xxxxxx wrote:

> From: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@xxxxxx>
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/1/12/112
> holds a patch by Tvrtko Ursulin
> 
>   Avoid having to provide a fake/invalid fd and path when flushing marks
> 
>   Currently for a group to flush marks it has set it needs to
>   provide a fake or invalid (but resolvable) file descriptor
>   and path when calling fanotify_mark. This patch pulls the
>   flush handling a bit up so file descriptor and path are
>   completely ignored when flushing.

The fanotify_mark() manpage should be updated to mention this.  Is that
a thing you can take care of? 
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