Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:45:50 +0200 | From | "Michael Kerrisk" <> | Subject | Re: inotify SIGIO documentation for inotify.7 man page |
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Hey Dmitry,
Ping!
Cheers,
Michael
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.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 > > >
-- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html
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