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| author | Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com> | 2017-12-06 21:48:11 -0800 |
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| committer | Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com> | 2017-12-08 11:30:11 -0800 |
| commit | 25385ef26a768817da23746ad00ccf046f8790eb (patch) | |
| tree | 9e4e15875031fdda66437b68bb45f41827e23b22 /doc | |
| parent | c3a997038c0e0c94801a6774bb2d374b7e981894 (diff) | |
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doc: immprove inode text in fs.md
Rewrite and edit somewhat confusing paragraph about inodes and AIX in
fs.md.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/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>
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/api/fs.md | 9 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/api/fs.md b/doc/api/fs.md index 8bc585d3a7..fb8d246f03 100644 --- a/doc/api/fs.md +++ b/doc/api/fs.md @@ -2568,12 +2568,9 @@ a new inode. The watch will emit an event for the delete but will continue watching the *original* inode. Events for the new inode will not be emitted. This is expected behavior. -On AIX, save and close of a file being watched causes two notifications - -one for adding new content, and one for truncation. Moreover, save and -close operations on some platforms cause inode changes that force watch -operations to become invalid and ineffective. AIX retains inode for the -lifetime of a file, that way though this is different from Linux / macOS, -this improves the usability of file watching. This is expected behavior. +AIX files retain the same inode for the lifetime of a file. Saving and closing a +watched file on AIX will result in two notifications (one for adding new +content, and one for truncation). #### Filename Argument |