Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org> wrote:
> I'm having a little trouble parsing that sentence.
> Could you clarify it or maybe rewrite/modify it?
> Thanks.
How about:
* ``info_filter`` and ``info_mask`` act as a filter on the info field of the
notification record. The notification is only written into the buffer if::
(watch.info & info_mask) == info_filter
This could be used, for example, to ignore events that are not exactly on
the watched point in a mount tree by specifying NOTIFY_MOUNT_IN_SUBTREE
must not be set, e.g.::
{
.type = WATCH_TYPE_MOUNT_NOTIFY,
.info_filter = 0,
.info_mask = NOTIFY_MOUNT_IN_SUBTREE,
.subtype_filter = ...,
}
as an event would be only permissible with this filter if::
(watch.info & NOTIFY_MOUNT_IN_SUBTREE) == 0
David
