inotify, faccessat2, fsync for Linux programs, and D-Bus credentials

What installing and starting Epiphany ran into:

- inotify: inotify_init/init1, add_watch, rm_watch, as a new kind of event
  descriptor. The filesystem reports creates, deletes, renames (with a
  cookie pairing MOVED_FROM and MOVED_TO), writes, close-after-write,
  truncation and attribute changes, to watches on the inode and on its
  directory with the name. ONESHOT, MASK_ADD, MASK_CREATE, ONLYDIR,
  DONT_FOLLOW, IGNORED on removal, Q_OVERFLOW, and Linux's coalescing of
  repeated events. The hooks cost one load when nothing is watched. Without
  it GLib found no file monitor and GNOME programs aborted.
- FIONREAD on inotify descriptors and pipes (inotifywait sizes its buffer
  by it).
- fsync and fdatasync had no Linux numbers since the first commit: GLib's
  atomic writes, gtk-update-icon-cache and dbus-uuidgen all got ENOSYS.
- faccessat2, the flags-taking faccessat musl uses for any flags.
- sendmsg accepts SCM_CREDENTIALS when they are the sender's own, as Linux
  checks; GDBus sends them in every handshake and was refused with EINVAL.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01S1giNvrHTrPMPw7V6x1kQ4
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// inotify(7) event masks, Linux's values.
#ifndef UAPI_INOTIFY_H
#define UAPI_INOTIFY_H
#define IN_ACCESS 0x00000001
#define IN_MODIFY 0x00000002
#define IN_ATTRIB 0x00000004
#define IN_CLOSE_WRITE 0x00000008
#define IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE 0x00000010
#define IN_OPEN 0x00000020
#define IN_MOVED_FROM 0x00000040
#define IN_MOVED_TO 0x00000080
#define IN_CREATE 0x00000100
#define IN_DELETE 0x00000200
#define IN_DELETE_SELF 0x00000400
#define IN_MOVE_SELF 0x00000800
#define IN_ALL_EVENTS 0x00000fff
#define IN_UNMOUNT 0x00002000
#define IN_Q_OVERFLOW 0x00004000
#define IN_IGNORED 0x00008000
#define IN_ONLYDIR 0x01000000
#define IN_DONT_FOLLOW 0x02000000
#define IN_EXCL_UNLINK 0x04000000
#define IN_MASK_CREATE 0x10000000
#define IN_MASK_ADD 0x20000000
#define IN_ISDIR 0x40000000
#define IN_ONESHOT 0x80000000
#endif