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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>
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Trott authored and MylesBorins committed Dec 12, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -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

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