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Thursday, October 20, 2011

[C] inotify example

inotify is a user-space library that receives the notification chain from the Linux kernel and makes user-space programs to react to the change.

source example:

#include stdlib.h>
#include errno.h>
#include sys/types.h>
#include sys/inotify.h>

#define EVENT_SIZE ( sizeof (struct inotify_event) )
#define BUF_LEN ( 1024 * ( EVENT_SIZE + 16 ) )

int main( int argc, char **argv )
{
int length, i = 0;
int fd;
int wd;
char buffer[BUF_LEN];

fd = inotify_init();

if ( fd < 0 ) {
perror( "inotify_init" );
}

wd = inotify_add_watch( fd, "/home/strike",
IN_MODIFY | IN_CREATE | IN_DELETE );
length = read( fd, buffer, BUF_LEN );

if ( length < 0 ) {
perror( "read" );
}

while ( i < length ) {
struct inotify_event *event = ( struct inotify_event * ) &buffer[ i ];
if ( event->len ) {
if ( event->mask & IN_CREATE ) {
if ( event->mask & IN_ISDIR ) {
printf( "The directory %s was created.\n", event->name );
}
else {
printf( "The file %s was created.\n", event->name );
}
}
else if ( event->mask & IN_DELETE ) {
if ( event->mask & IN_ISDIR ) {
printf( "The directory %s was deleted.\n", event->name );
}
else {
printf( "The file %s was deleted.\n", event->name );
}
}
else if ( event->mask & IN_MODIFY ) {
if ( event->mask & IN_ISDIR ) {
printf( "The directory %s was modified.\n", event->name );
}
else {
printf( "The file %s was modified.\n", event->name );
}
}
}
i += EVENT_SIZE + event->len;
}

( void ) inotify_rm_watch( fd, wd );
( void ) close( fd );

exit( 0 );
}

from http://dduri.net/blog?page=10


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