1INOTIFY(7) Linux Programmer's Manual INOTIFY(7)
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6 inotify - monitoring filesystem events
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9 The inotify API provides a mechanism for monitoring filesystem events.
10 Inotify can be used to monitor individual files, or to monitor directo‐
11 ries. When a directory is monitored, inotify will return events for
12 the directory itself, and for files inside the directory.
13 The following system calls are used with this API:
15 * inotify_init(2) creates an inotify instance and returns a file
17 descriptor referring to the inotify instance. The more recent ino‐
18 tify_init1(2) is like inotify_init(2), but has a flags argument that
19 provides access to some extra functionality.
20 * inotify_add_watch(2) manipulates the "watch list" associated with an
22 inotify instance. Each item ("watch") in the watch list specifies
23 the pathname of a file or directory, along with some set of events
24 that the kernel should monitor for the file referred to by that
25 pathname. inotify_add_watch(2) either creates a new watch item, or
26 modifies an existing watch. Each watch has a unique "watch descrip‐
27 tor", an integer returned by inotify_add_watch(2) when the watch is
28 created.
29 * When events occur for monitored files and directories, those events
31 are made available to the application as structured data that can be
32 read from the inotify file descriptor using read(2) (see below).
33 * inotify_rm_watch(2) removes an item from an inotify watch list.
35 * When all file descriptors referring to an inotify instance have been
37 closed (using close(2)), the underlying object and its resources are
38 freed for reuse by the kernel; all associated watches are automati‐
39 cally freed.
40 With careful programming, an application can use inotify to efficiently
42 monitor and cache the state of a set of filesystem objects. However,
43 robust applications should allow for the fact that bugs in the monitor‐
44 ing logic or races of the kind described below may leave the cache
45 inconsistent with the filesystem state. It is probably wise to do some
46 consistency checking, and rebuild the cache when inconsistencies are
47 detected.
48 Reading events from an inotify file descriptor
50 To determine what events have occurred, an application read(2)s from
51 the inotify file descriptor. If no events have so far occurred, then,
52 assuming a blocking file descriptor, read(2) will block until at least
53 one event occurs (unless interrupted by a signal, in which case the
54 call fails with the error EINTR; see signal(7)).
55 Each successful read(2) returns a buffer containing one or more of the
57 following structures:
58 struct inotify_event {
60 int wd; /* Watch descriptor */
61 uint32_t mask; /* Mask describing event */
62 uint32_t cookie; /* Unique cookie associating related
63 events (for rename(2)) */
64 uint32_t len; /* Size of name field */
65 char name[]; /* Optional null-terminated name */
66 };
67 wd identifies the watch for which this event occurs. It is one of the
69 watch descriptors returned by a previous call to inotify_add_watch(2).
70 mask contains bits that describe the event that occurred (see below).
72 cookie is a unique integer that connects related events. Currently,
74 this is used only for rename events, and allows the resulting pair of
75 IN_MOVED_FROM and IN_MOVED_TO events to be connected by the applica‐
76 tion. For all other event types, cookie is set to 0.
77 The name field is present only when an event is returned for a file
79 inside a watched directory; it identifies the filename within to the
80 watched directory. This filename is null-terminated, and may include
81 further null bytes ('\0') to align subsequent reads to a suitable
82 address boundary.
83 The len field counts all of the bytes in name, including the null
85 bytes; the length of each inotify_event structure is thus sizeof(struct
86 inotify_event)+len.
87 The behavior when the buffer given to read(2) is too small to return
89 information about the next event depends on the kernel version: in ker‐
90 nels before 2.6.21, read(2) returns 0; since kernel 2.6.21, read(2)
91 fails with the error EINVAL. Specifying a buffer of size
92 sizeof(struct inotify_event) + NAME_MAX + 1
94 will be sufficient to read at least one event.
96 inotify events
98 The inotify_add_watch(2) mask argument and the mask field of the ino‐
99 tify_event structure returned when read(2)ing an inotify file descrip‐
100 tor are both bit masks identifying inotify events. The following bits
101 can be specified in mask when calling inotify_add_watch(2) and may be
102 returned in the mask field returned by read(2):
103 IN_ACCESS (+)
105 File was accessed (e.g., read(2), execve(2)).
106 IN_ATTRIB (*)
108 Metadata changed—for example, permissions (e.g., chmod(2)),
109 timestamps (e.g., utimensat(2)), extended attributes (setx‐
110 attr(2)), link count (since Linux 2.6.25; e.g., for the tar‐
111 get of link(2) and for unlink(2)), and user/group ID (e.g.,
112 chown(2)).
113 IN_CLOSE_WRITE (+)
115 File opened for writing was closed.
116 IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE (*)
118 File or directory not opened for writing was closed.
119 IN_CREATE (+)
121 File/directory created in watched directory (e.g., open(2)
122 O_CREAT, mkdir(2), link(2), symlink(2), bind(2) on a UNIX
123 domain socket).
124 IN_DELETE (+)
126 File/directory deleted from watched directory.
127 IN_DELETE_SELF
129 Watched file/directory was itself deleted. (This event also
130 occurs if an object is moved to another filesystem, since
131 mv(1) in effect copies the file to the other filesystem and
132 then deletes it from the original filesystem.) In addition,
133 an IN_IGNORED event will subsequently be generated for the
134 watch descriptor.
135 IN_MODIFY (+)
137 File was modified (e.g., write(2), truncate(2)).
138 IN_MOVE_SELF
140 Watched file/directory was itself moved.
141 IN_MOVED_FROM (+)
143 Generated for the directory containing the old filename when
144 a file is renamed.
145 IN_MOVED_TO (+)
147 Generated for the directory containing the new filename when
148 a file is renamed.
149 IN_OPEN (*)
151 File or directory was opened.
152 Inotify monitoring is inode-based: when monitoring a file (but not when
154 monitoring the directory containing a file), an event can be generated
155 for activity on any link to the file (in the same or a different direc‐
156 tory).
157 When monitoring a directory:
159 * the events marked above with an asterisk (*) can occur both for the
161 directory itself and for objects inside the directory; and
162 * the events marked with a plus sign (+) occur only for objects inside
164 the directory (not for the directory itself).
165 Note: when monitoring a directory, events are not generated for the
167 files inside the directory when the events are performed via a pathname
168 (i.e., a link) that lies outside the monitored directory.
169 When events are generated for objects inside a watched directory, the
171 name field in the returned inotify_event structure identifies the name
172 of the file within the directory.
173 The IN_ALL_EVENTS macro is defined as a bit mask of all of the above
175 events. This macro can be used as the mask argument when calling ino‐
176 tify_add_watch(2).
177 Two additional convenience macros are defined:
179 IN_MOVE
181 Equates to IN_MOVED_FROM | IN_MOVED_TO.
182 IN_CLOSE
184 Equates to IN_CLOSE_WRITE | IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE.
185 The following further bits can be specified in mask when calling ino‐
187 tify_add_watch(2):
188 IN_DONT_FOLLOW (since Linux 2.6.15)
190 Don't dereference pathname if it is a symbolic link.
191 IN_EXCL_UNLINK (since Linux 2.6.36)
193 By default, when watching events on the children of a direc‐
194 tory, events are generated for children even after they have
195 been unlinked from the directory. This can result in large
196 numbers of uninteresting events for some applications (e.g.,
197 if watching /tmp, in which many applications create tempo‐
198 rary files whose names are immediately unlinked). Specify‐
199 ing IN_EXCL_UNLINK changes the default behavior, so that
200 events are not generated for children after they have been
201 unlinked from the watched directory.
202 IN_MASK_ADD
204 If a watch instance already exists for the filesystem object
205 corresponding to pathname, add (OR) the events in mask to
206 the watch mask (instead of replacing the mask).
207 IN_ONESHOT
209 Monitor the filesystem object corresponding to pathname for
210 one event, then remove from watch list.
211 IN_ONLYDIR (since Linux 2.6.15)
213 Watch pathname only if it is a directory. Using this flag
214 provides an application with a race-free way of ensuring
215 that the monitored object is a directory.
216 The following bits may be set in the mask field returned by read(2):
218 IN_IGNORED
220 Watch was removed explicitly (inotify_rm_watch(2)) or auto‐
221 matically (file was deleted, or filesystem was unmounted).
222 See also BUGS.
223 IN_ISDIR
225 Subject of this event is a directory.
226 IN_Q_OVERFLOW
228 Event queue overflowed (wd is -1 for this event).
229 IN_UNMOUNT
231 Filesystem containing watched object was unmounted. In
232 addition, an IN_IGNORED event will subsequently be generated
233 for the watch descriptor.
234 Examples
236 Suppose an application is watching the directory dir and the file
237 dir/myfile for all events. The examples below show some events that
238 will be generated for these two objects.
239 fd = open("dir/myfile", O_RDWR);
241 Generates IN_OPEN events for both dir and dir/myfile.
242 read(fd, buf, count);
244 Generates IN_ACCESS events for both dir and dir/myfile.
245 write(fd, buf, count);
247 Generates IN_MODIFY events for both dir and dir/myfile.
248 fchmod(fd, mode);
250 Generates IN_ATTRIB events for both dir and dir/myfile.
251 close(fd);
253 Generates IN_CLOSE_WRITE events for both dir and dir/myfile.
254 Suppose an application is watching the directories dir1 and dir2, and
256 the file dir1/myfile. The following examples show some events that may
257 be generated.
258 link("dir1/myfile", "dir2/new");
260 Generates an IN_ATTRIB event for myfile and an IN_CREATE
261 event for dir2.
262 rename("dir1/myfile", "dir2/myfile");
264 Generates an IN_MOVED_FROM event for dir1, an IN_MOVED_TO
265 event for dir2, and an IN_MOVE_SELF event for myfile. The
266 IN_MOVED_FROM and IN_MOVED_TO events will have the same
267 cookie value.
268 Suppose that dir1/xx and dir2/yy are (the only) links to the same file,
270 and an application is watching dir1, dir2, dir1/xx, and dir2/yy. Exe‐
271 cuting the following calls in the order given below will generate the
272 following events:
273 unlink("dir2/yy");
275 Generates an IN_ATTRIB event for xx (because its link count
276 changes) and an IN_DELETE event for dir2.
277 unlink("dir1/xx");
279 Generates IN_ATTRIB, IN_DELETE_SELF, and IN_IGNORED events
280 for xx, and an IN_DELETE event for dir1.
281 Suppose an application is watching the directory dir and (the empty)
283 directory dir/subdir. The following examples show some events that may
284 be generated.
285 mkdir("dir/new", mode);
287 Generates an IN_CREATE | IN_ISDIR event for dir.
288 rmdir("dir/subdir");
290 Generates IN_DELETE_SELF and IN_IGNORED events for subdir,
291 and an IN_DELETE | IN_ISDIR event for dir.
292 /proc interfaces
294 The following interfaces can be used to limit the amount of kernel mem‐
295 ory consumed by inotify:
296 /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_queued_events
298 The value in this file is used when an application calls ino‐
299 tify_init(2) to set an upper limit on the number of events that
300 can be queued to the corresponding inotify instance. Events in
301 excess of this limit are dropped, but an IN_Q_OVERFLOW event is
302 always generated.
303 /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances
305 This specifies an upper limit on the number of inotify instances
306 that can be created per real user ID.
307 /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches
309 This specifies an upper limit on the number of watches that can
310 be created per real user ID.
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313 Inotify was merged into the 2.6.13 Linux kernel. The required library
314 interfaces were added to glibc in version 2.4. (IN_DONT_FOLLOW,
315 IN_MASK_ADD, and IN_ONLYDIR were added in glibc version 2.5.)
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318 The inotify API is Linux-specific.
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321 Inotify file descriptors can be monitored using select(2), poll(2), and
322 epoll(7). When an event is available, the file descriptor indicates as
323 readable.
324 Since Linux 2.6.25, signal-driven I/O notification is available for
326 inotify file descriptors; see the discussion of F_SETFL (for setting
327 the O_ASYNC flag), F_SETOWN, and F_SETSIG in fcntl(2). The siginfo_t
328 structure (described in sigaction(2)) that is passed to the signal han‐
329 dler has the following fields set: si_fd is set to the inotify file
330 descriptor number; si_signo is set to the signal number; si_code is set
331 to POLL_IN; and POLLIN is set in si_band.
332 If successive output inotify events produced on the inotify file
334 descriptor are identical (same wd, mask, cookie, and name), then they
335 are coalesced into a single event if the older event has not yet been
336 read (but see BUGS). This reduces the amount of kernel memory required
337 for the event queue, but also means that an application can't use ino‐
338 tify to reliably count file events.
339 The events returned by reading from an inotify file descriptor form an
341 ordered queue. Thus, for example, it is guaranteed that when renaming
342 from one directory to another, events will be produced in the correct
343 order on the inotify file descriptor.
344 The set of watch descriptors that is being monitored via an inotify
346 file descriptor can be viewed via the entry for the inotify file
347 descriptor in the process's /proc/[pid]/fdinfo directory. See proc(5)
348 for further details. The FIONREAD ioctl(2) returns the number of bytes
349 available to read from an inotify file descriptor.
350 Limitations and caveats
352 The inotify API provides no information about the user or process that
353 triggered the inotify event. In particular, there is no easy way for a
354 process that is monitoring events via inotify to distinguish events
355 that it triggers itself from those that are triggered by other pro‐
356 cesses.
357 Inotify reports only events that a user-space program triggers through
359 the filesystem API. As a result, it does not catch remote events that
360 occur on network filesystems. (Applications must fall back to polling
361 the filesystem to catch such events.) Furthermore, various pseudo-
362 filesystems such as /proc, /sys, and /dev/pts are not monitorable with
363 inotify.
364 The inotify API does not report file accesses and modifications that
366 may occur because of mmap(2), msync(2), and munmap(2).
367 The inotify API identifies affected files by filename. However, by the
369 time an application processes an inotify event, the filename may
370 already have been deleted or renamed.
371 The inotify API identifies events via watch descriptors. It is the
373 application's responsibility to cache a mapping (if one is needed)
374 between watch descriptors and pathnames. Be aware that directory
375 renamings may affect multiple cached pathnames.
376 Inotify monitoring of directories is not recursive: to monitor subdi‐
378 rectories under a directory, additional watches must be created. This
379 can take a significant amount time for large directory trees.
380 If monitoring an entire directory subtree, and a new subdirectory is
382 created in that tree or an existing directory is renamed into that
383 tree, be aware that by the time you create a watch for the new subdi‐
384 rectory, new files (and subdirectories) may already exist inside the
385 subdirectory. Therefore, you may want to scan the contents of the sub‐
386 directory immediately after adding the watch (and, if desired, recur‐
387 sively add watches for any subdirectories that it contains).
388 Note that the event queue can overflow. In this case, events are lost.
390 Robust applications should handle the possibility of lost events grace‐
391 fully. For example, it may be necessary to rebuild part or all of the
392 application cache. (One simple, but possibly expensive, approach is to
393 close the inotify file descriptor, empty the cache, create a new ino‐
394 tify file descriptor, and then re-create watches and cache entries for
395 the objects to be monitored.)
396 If a filesystem is mounted on top of a monitored directory, no event is
398 generated, and no events are generated for objects immediately under
399 the new mount point. If the filesystem is subsequently unmounted,
400 events will subsequently be generated for the directory and the objects
401 it contains.
402 Dealing with rename() events
404 As noted above, the IN_MOVED_FROM and IN_MOVED_TO event pair that is
405 generated by rename(2) can be matched up via their shared cookie value.
406 However, the task of matching has some challenges.
407 These two events are usually consecutive in the event stream available
409 when reading from the inotify file descriptor. However, this is not
410 guaranteed. If multiple processes are triggering events for monitored
411 objects, then (on rare occasions) an arbitrary number of other events
412 may appear between the IN_MOVED_FROM and IN_MOVED_TO events. Further‐
413 more, it is not guaranteed that the event pair is atomically inserted
414 into the queue: there may be a brief interval where the IN_MOVED_FROM
415 has appeared, but the IN_MOVED_TO has not.
416 Matching up the IN_MOVED_FROM and IN_MOVED_TO event pair generated by
418 rename(2) is thus inherently racy. (Don't forget that if an object is
419 renamed outside of a monitored directory, there may not even be an
420 IN_MOVED_TO event.) Heuristic approaches (e.g., assume the events are
421 always consecutive) can be used to ensure a match in most cases, but
422 will inevitably miss some cases, causing the application to perceive
423 the IN_MOVED_FROM and IN_MOVED_TO events as being unrelated. If watch
424 descriptors are destroyed and re-created as a result, then those watch
425 descriptors will be inconsistent with the watch descriptors in any
426 pending events. (Re-creating the inotify file descriptor and rebuild‐
427 ing the cache may be useful to deal with this scenario.)
428 Applications should also allow for the possibility that the
430 IN_MOVED_FROM event was the last event that could fit in the buffer
431 returned by the current call to read(2), and the accompanying
432 IN_MOVED_TO event might be fetched only on the next read(2), which
433 should be done with a (small) timeout to allow for the fact that inser‐
434 tion of the IN_MOVED_FROM-IN_MOVED_TO event pair is not atomic, and
435 also the possibility that there may not be any IN_MOVED_TO event.
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438 Before Linux 3.19, fallocate(2) did not create any inotify events.
439 Since Linux 3.19, calls to fallocate(2) generate IN_MODIFY events.
440 In kernels before 2.6.16, the IN_ONESHOT mask flag does not work.
442 As originally designed and implemented, the IN_ONESHOT flag did not
444 cause an IN_IGNORED event to be generated when the watch was dropped
445 after one event. However, as an unintended effect of other changes,
446 since Linux 2.6.36, an IN_IGNORED event is generated in this case.
447 Before kernel 2.6.25, the kernel code that was intended to coalesce
449 successive identical events (i.e., the two most recent events could
450 potentially be coalesced if the older had not yet been read) instead
451 checked if the most recent event could be coalesced with the oldest
452 unread event.
453 When a watch descriptor is removed by calling inotify_rm_watch(2) (or
455 because a watch file is deleted or the filesystem that contains it is
456 unmounted), any pending unread events for that watch descriptor remain
457 available to read. As watch descriptors are subsequently allocated
458 with inotify_add_watch(2), the kernel cycles through the range of pos‐
459 sible watch descriptors (0 to INT_MAX) incrementally. When allocating
460 a free watch descriptor, no check is made to see whether that watch
461 descriptor number has any pending unread events in the inotify queue.
462 Thus, it can happen that a watch descriptor is reallocated even when
463 pending unread events exist for a previous incarnation of that watch
464 descriptor number, with the result that the application might then read
465 those events and interpret them as belonging to the file associated
466 with the newly recycled watch descriptor. In practice, the likelihood
467 of hitting this bug may be extremely low, since it requires that an
468 application cycle through INT_MAX watch descriptors, release a watch
469 descriptor while leaving unread events for that watch descriptor in the
470 queue, and then recycle that watch descriptor. For this reason, and
471 because there have been no reports of the bug occurring in real-world
472 applications, as of Linux 3.15, no kernel changes have yet been made to
473 eliminate this possible bug.
474
476 The following program demonstrates the usage of the inotify API. It
477 marks the directories passed as a command-line arguments and waits for
478 events of type IN_OPEN, IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE and IN_CLOSE_WRITE.
479 The following output was recorded while editing the file
481 /home/user/temp/foo and listing directory /tmp. Before the file and
482 the directory were opened, IN_OPEN events occurred. After the file was
483 closed, an IN_CLOSE_WRITE event occurred. After the directory was
484 closed, an IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE event occurred. Execution of the program
485 ended when the user pressed the ENTER key.
486 Example output
488 $ ./a.out /tmp /home/user/temp
489 Press enter key to terminate.
490 Listening for events.
491 IN_OPEN: /home/user/temp/foo [file]
492 IN_CLOSE_WRITE: /home/user/temp/foo [file]
493 IN_OPEN: /tmp/ [directory]
494 IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE: /tmp/ [directory]
495 Listening for events stopped.
497 Program source
499 #include <errno.h>
501 #include <poll.h>
502 #include <stdio.h>
503 #include <stdlib.h>
504 #include <sys/inotify.h>
505 #include <unistd.h>
506 /* Read all available inotify events from the file descriptor 'fd'.
508 wd is the table of watch descriptors for the directories in argv.
509 argc is the length of wd and argv.
510 argv is the list of watched directories.
511 Entry 0 of wd and argv is unused. */
512 static void
514 handle_events(int fd, int *wd, int argc, char* argv[])
515 {
516 /* Some systems cannot read integer variables if they are not
517 properly aligned. On other systems, incorrect alignment may
518 decrease performance. Hence, the buffer used for reading from
519 the inotify file descriptor should have the same alignment as
520 struct inotify_event. */
521 char buf[4096]
523 __attribute__ ((aligned(__alignof__(struct inotify_event))));
524 const struct inotify_event *event;
525 int i;
526 ssize_t len;
527 char *ptr;
528 /* Loop while events can be read from inotify file descriptor. */
530 for (;;) {
532 /* Read some events. */
534 len = read(fd, buf, sizeof buf);
536 if (len == -1 && errno != EAGAIN) {
537 perror("read");
538 exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
539 }
540 /* If the nonblocking read() found no events to read, then
542 it returns -1 with errno set to EAGAIN. In that case,
543 we exit the loop. */
544 if (len <= 0)
546 break;
547 /* Loop over all events in the buffer */
549 for (ptr = buf; ptr < buf + len;
551 ptr += sizeof(struct inotify_event) + event->len) {
552 event = (const struct inotify_event *) ptr;
554 /* Print event type */
556 if (event->mask & IN_OPEN)
558 printf("IN_OPEN: ");
559 if (event->mask & IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE)
560 printf("IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE: ");
561 if (event->mask & IN_CLOSE_WRITE)
562 printf("IN_CLOSE_WRITE: ");
563 /* Print the name of the watched directory */
565 for (i = 1; i < argc; ++i) {
567 if (wd[i] == event->wd) {
568 printf("%s/", argv[i]);
569 break;
570 }
571 }
572 /* Print the name of the file */
574 if (event->len)
576 printf("%s", event->name);
577 /* Print type of filesystem object */
579 if (event->mask & IN_ISDIR)
581 printf(" [directory]\n");
582 else
583 printf(" [file]\n");
584 }
585 }
586 }
587 int
589 main(int argc, char* argv[])
590 {
591 char buf;
592 int fd, i, poll_num;
593 int *wd;
594 nfds_t nfds;
595 struct pollfd fds[2];
596 if (argc < 2) {
598 printf("Usage: %s PATH [PATH ...]\n", argv[0]);
599 exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
600 }
601 printf("Press ENTER key to terminate.\n");
603 /* Create the file descriptor for accessing the inotify API */
605 fd = inotify_init1(IN_NONBLOCK);
607 if (fd == -1) {
608 perror("inotify_init1");
609 exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
610 }
611 /* Allocate memory for watch descriptors */
613 wd = calloc(argc, sizeof(int));
615 if (wd == NULL) {
616 perror("calloc");
617 exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
618 }
619 /* Mark directories for events
621 - file was opened
622 - file was closed */
623 for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
625 wd[i] = inotify_add_watch(fd, argv[i],
626 IN_OPEN | IN_CLOSE);
627 if (wd[i] == -1) {
628 fprintf(stderr, "Cannot watch '%s'\n", argv[i]);
629 perror("inotify_add_watch");
630 exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
631 }
632 }
633 /* Prepare for polling */
635 nfds = 2;
637 /* Console input */
639 fds[0].fd = STDIN_FILENO;
641 fds[0].events = POLLIN;
642 /* Inotify input */
644 fds[1].fd = fd;
646 fds[1].events = POLLIN;
647 /* Wait for events and/or terminal input */
649 printf("Listening for events.\n");
651 while (1) {
652 poll_num = poll(fds, nfds, -1);
653 if (poll_num == -1) {
654 if (errno == EINTR)
655 continue;
656 perror("poll");
657 exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
658 }
659 if (poll_num > 0) {
661 if (fds[0].revents & POLLIN) {
663 /* Console input is available. Empty stdin and quit */
665 while (read(STDIN_FILENO, &buf, 1) > 0 && buf != '\n')
667 continue;
668 break;
669 }
670 if (fds[1].revents & POLLIN) {
672 /* Inotify events are available */
674 handle_events(fd, wd, argc, argv);
676 }
677 }
678 }
679 printf("Listening for events stopped.\n");
681 /* Close inotify file descriptor */
683 close(fd);
685 free(wd);
687 exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
688 }
689
691 inotifywait(1), inotifywatch(1), inotify_add_watch(2), inotify_init(2),
692 inotify_init1(2), inotify_rm_watch(2), read(2), stat(2), fanotify(7)
693 Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt in the Linux kernel source tree
695
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