Commit 865c452
doc: immprove inode text in fs.md
Rewrite and edit somewhat confusing paragraph about inodes and AIX in
fs.md.
PR-URL: #17519
Reviewed-By: Jon Moss <me@jonathanmoss.me>
Reviewed-By: Anatoli Papirovski <apapirovski@mac.com>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>1 parent 18d6dab commit 865c452
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@@ -2568,12 +2568,9 @@ a new inode. The watch will emit an event for the delete but will continue | |||
| 2568 | 2568 | watching the *original* inode. Events for the new inode will not be emitted. | |
| 2569 | 2569 | This is expected behavior. | |
| 2570 | 2570 | ||
| 2571 | - On AIX, save and close of a file being watched causes two notifications - | ||
| 2572 | - one for adding new content, and one for truncation. Moreover, save and | ||
| 2573 | - close operations on some platforms cause inode changes that force watch | ||
| 2574 | - operations to become invalid and ineffective. AIX retains inode for the | ||
| 2575 | - lifetime of a file, that way though this is different from Linux / macOS, | ||
| 2576 | - this improves the usability of file watching. This is expected behavior. | ||
| 2571 | + AIX files retain the same inode for the lifetime of a file. Saving and closing a | ||
| 2572 | + watched file on AIX will result in two notifications (one for adding new | ||
| 2573 | + content, and one for truncation). | ||
| 2577 | 2574 | ||
| 2578 | 2575 | #### Filename Argument | |
| 2579 | 2576 | ||
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