Struct nix::sys::inotify::Inotify

pub struct Inotify { /* private fields */ }

An inotify instance. This is also a file descriptor, you can feed it to other interfaces consuming file descriptors, epoll for example.

Implementations

impl Inotify

pub fn init(flags: InitFlags) -> Result<Inotify>

Initialize a new inotify instance.

Returns a Result containing an inotify instance.

For more information see, inotify_init(2).

pub fn add_watch<P: ?Sized + NixPath>( &self, path: &P, mask: AddWatchFlags, ) -> Result<WatchDescriptor>

Adds a new watch on the target file or directory.

Returns a watch descriptor. This is not a File Descriptor!

For more information see, inotify_add_watch(2).

pub fn rm_watch(&self, wd: WatchDescriptor) -> Result<()>

Removes an existing watch using the watch descriptor returned by inotify_add_watch.

Returns an EINVAL error if the watch descriptor is invalid.

For more information see, inotify_rm_watch(2).

pub fn read_events(&self) -> Result<Vec<InotifyEvent>>

Reads a collection of events from the inotify file descriptor. This call can either be blocking or non blocking depending on whether IN_NONBLOCK was set at initialization.

Returns as many events as available. If the call was non blocking and no events could be read then the EAGAIN error is returned.

Trait Implementations

impl AsFd for Inotify

fn as_fd(&self) -> BorrowedFd<'_>

Borrows the file descriptor.

impl Debug for Inotify

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl FromRawFd for Inotify

unsafe fn from_raw_fd(fd: RawFd) -> Self

Constructs a new instance of Self from the given raw file descriptor.