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Revision: 1.2
Committed: Tue Aug 23 02:45:23 2005 UTC (21 years ago) by root
Content type: text/plain
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-1_0, rel-1_01, rel-0_8
Changes since 1.1: +3 -1 lines
Log Message:
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# User Rev Content
1 root 1.1 /*
2     * Inode based directory notification for Linux
3     *
4     * Copyright (C) 2005 John McCutchan
5     */
6    
7     #ifndef _LINUX_INOTIFY_H
8     #define _LINUX_INOTIFY_H
9    
10     #include <linux/types.h>
11    
12     /*
13     * struct inotify_event - structure read from the inotify device for each event
14     *
15     * When you are watching a directory, you will receive the filename for events
16     * such as IN_CREATE, IN_DELETE, IN_OPEN, IN_CLOSE, ..., relative to the wd.
17     */
18     struct inotify_event {
19     __s32 wd; /* watch descriptor */
20     __u32 mask; /* watch mask */
21     __u32 cookie; /* cookie to synchronize two events */
22     __u32 len; /* length (including nulls) of name */
23     char name[0]; /* stub for possible name */
24     };
25    
26     /* the following are legal, implemented events that user-space can watch for */
27     #define IN_ACCESS 0x00000001 /* File was accessed */
28     #define IN_MODIFY 0x00000002 /* File was modified */
29     #define IN_ATTRIB 0x00000004 /* Metadata changed */
30     #define IN_CLOSE_WRITE 0x00000008 /* Writtable file was closed */
31     #define IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE 0x00000010 /* Unwrittable file closed */
32     #define IN_OPEN 0x00000020 /* File was opened */
33     #define IN_MOVED_FROM 0x00000040 /* File was moved from X */
34     #define IN_MOVED_TO 0x00000080 /* File was moved to Y */
35     #define IN_CREATE 0x00000100 /* Subfile was created */
36     #define IN_DELETE 0x00000200 /* Subfile was deleted */
37     #define IN_DELETE_SELF 0x00000400 /* Self was deleted */
38 root 1.2 #define IN_MOVE_SELF 0x00000800 /* Self was moved */
39 root 1.1
40     /* the following are legal events. they are sent as needed to any watch */
41     #define IN_UNMOUNT 0x00002000 /* Backing fs was unmounted */
42     #define IN_Q_OVERFLOW 0x00004000 /* Event queued overflowed */
43     #define IN_IGNORED 0x00008000 /* File was ignored */
44    
45     /* helper events */
46     #define IN_CLOSE (IN_CLOSE_WRITE | IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE) /* close */
47     #define IN_MOVE (IN_MOVED_FROM | IN_MOVED_TO) /* moves */
48    
49     /* special flags */
50     #define IN_ISDIR 0x40000000 /* event occurred against dir */
51     #define IN_ONESHOT 0x80000000 /* only send event once */
52    
53     /*
54     * All of the events - we build the list by hand so that we can add flags in
55     * the future and not break backward compatibility. Apps will get only the
56     * events that they originally wanted. Be sure to add new events here!
57     */
58     #define IN_ALL_EVENTS (IN_ACCESS | IN_MODIFY | IN_ATTRIB | IN_CLOSE_WRITE | \
59     IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE | IN_OPEN | IN_MOVED_FROM | \
60 root 1.2 IN_MOVED_TO | IN_DELETE | IN_CREATE | IN_DELETE_SELF | \
61     IN_MOVE_SELF)
62 root 1.1
63     #ifdef __KERNEL__
64    
65     #include <linux/dcache.h>
66     #include <linux/fs.h>
67     #include <linux/config.h>
68    
69     #ifdef CONFIG_INOTIFY
70    
71     extern void inotify_inode_queue_event(struct inode *, __u32, __u32,
72     const char *);
73     extern void inotify_dentry_parent_queue_event(struct dentry *, __u32, __u32,
74     const char *);
75     extern void inotify_unmount_inodes(struct list_head *);
76     extern void inotify_inode_is_dead(struct inode *);
77     extern u32 inotify_get_cookie(void);
78    
79     #else
80    
81     static inline void inotify_inode_queue_event(struct inode *inode,
82     __u32 mask, __u32 cookie,
83     const char *filename)
84     {
85     }
86    
87     static inline void inotify_dentry_parent_queue_event(struct dentry *dentry,
88     __u32 mask, __u32 cookie,
89     const char *filename)
90     {
91     }
92    
93     static inline void inotify_unmount_inodes(struct list_head *list)
94     {
95     }
96    
97     static inline void inotify_inode_is_dead(struct inode *inode)
98     {
99     }
100    
101     static inline u32 inotify_get_cookie(void)
102     {
103     return 0;
104     }
105    
106     #endif /* CONFIG_INOTIFY */
107    
108     #endif /* __KERNEL __ */
109    
110     #endif /* _LINUX_INOTIFY_H */