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authorDenis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>2008-11-14 21:52:16 +0000
committerDenis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>2008-11-14 21:52:16 +0000
commit289ff0e3411543446f40cfa45db606431a4657e1 (patch)
tree5353a8698e9e5c1dc47f2fd85928dd83aa27b640
parentb0e5d42d4f3245cb6d7511fc03a09adb82c09783 (diff)
inotify: document waiting behavior
-rw-r--r--include/usage.h9
-rw-r--r--miscutils/inotifyd.c2
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/usage.h b/include/usage.h
index 9f7358906..69d37f923 100644
--- a/include/usage.h
+++ b/include/usage.h
@@ -1840,14 +1840,15 @@
#define inotifyd_trivial_usage \
"/user/space/agent dir/or/file/being/watched[:mask] ..."
#define inotifyd_full_usage "\n\n" \
- "Spawn userspace agent on filesystem changes." \
+ "Run userspace agent on filesystem changes." \
"\nWhen a filesystem event matching the mask occurs" \
- "\non specified file/directory an userspace agent is spawned" \
+ "\non specified file /user/space/agent is run" \
"\nwith the parameters:" \
"\n1. actual event(s)" \
- "\n2. file/directory name" \
+ "\n2. file name" \
"\n3. name of subfile (if any), in case of watching a directory" \
- "\n" \
+ "\ninotify waits for agent to exit." \
+ "\nEvents:" \
"\n a File is accessed" \
"\n c File is modified" \
"\n e Metadata changed" \
diff --git a/miscutils/inotifyd.c b/miscutils/inotifyd.c
index 0c4b06784..216a69654 100644
--- a/miscutils/inotifyd.c
+++ b/miscutils/inotifyd.c
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ int inotifyd_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
if (bb_got_signal)
break;
n = poll(&pfd, 1, -1);
- /* Signal interrupted us? */
+ // Signal interrupted us?
if (n < 0 && errno == EINTR)
goto again;
// Under Linux, above if() is not necessary.