Module nix::sys::fanotify

Monitoring API for filesystem events.

Fanotify is a Linux-only API to monitor filesystems events.

Additional capabilities compared to the inotify API include the ability to monitor all of the objects in a mounted filesystem, the ability to make access permission decisions, and the possibility to read or modify files before access by other applications.

For more documentation, please read fanotify(7).

Structs

• EventFFlags
  File status flags for fanotify events file descriptors.
• Fanotify
  A fanotify group. This is also a file descriptor that can feed to other interfaces consuming file descriptors.
• FanotifyEvent
  Abstract over libc::fanotify_event_metadata, which represents an event received via Fanotify::read_events.
• FanotifyResponse
  Abstraction over the structure to be sent to allow or deny a given event.
• InitFlags
  Configuration options for Fanotify::init().
• MarkFlags
  Configuration options for Fanotify::mark().
• MaskFlags
  Mask for defining which events shall be listened with Fanotify::mark() and for querying notifications.
• Response
  Response to be wrapped in FanotifyResponse and sent to the Fanotify group to allow or deny an event.

Constants

• FANOTIFY_METADATA_VERSION
  Compile version number of fanotify API.