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Diffstat (limited to 'man7/inotify.7')
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1 files changed, 17 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/man7/inotify.7 b/man7/inotify.7 index 3dd4c4d316..9ead9b24cc 100644 --- a/man7/inotify.7 +++ b/man7/inotify.7 @@ -33,12 +33,12 @@ When a directory is monitored, inotify will return events for the directory itself, and for files inside the directory. The following system calls are used with this API: -.BR inotify_init (), -.BR inotify_add_watch (), -.BR inotify_rm_watch (), -.BR read (), +.BR inotify_init (2), +.BR inotify_add_watch (2), +.BR inotify_rm_watch (2), +.BR read (2), and -.BR close (). +.BR close (2). .BR inotify_init (2) creates an inotify instance and returns a file descriptor @@ -50,11 +50,11 @@ Each item ("watch") in the watch list specifies the pathname of a file or directory, along with some set of events that the kernel should monitor for the file referred to by that pathname. -.BR inotify_add_watch () +.BR inotify_add_watch (2) either creates a new watch item, or modifies an existing watch. Each watch has a unique "watch descriptor", an integer returned by -.BR inotify_add_watch () +.BR inotify_add_watch (2) when the watch is created. .BR inotify_rm_watch (2) @@ -71,11 +71,11 @@ To determine what events have occurred, an application from the inotify file descriptor. If no events have so far occurred, then, assuming a blocking file descriptor, -.BR read () +.BR read (2) will block until at least one event occurs. Each successful -.BR read () +.BR read (2) returns a buffer containing one or more of the following structures: .in +0.25i .nf @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ struct inotify_event { .I wd identifies the watch for which this event occurs. It is one of the watch descriptors returned by a previous call to -.BR inotify_add_watch (). +.BR inotify_add_watch (2). .I mask contains bits that describe the event that occurred (see below). @@ -141,11 +141,11 @@ inotify events. The following bits can be specified in .I mask when calling -.BR inotify_add_watch () +.BR inotify_add_watch (2) and may be returned in the .I mask field returned by -.BR read (): +.BR read (2): .in +0.25i .TS lB lB @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ macro is defined as a bit mask of all of the above events. This macro can be used as the .I mask argument when calling -.BR inotify_add_watch (). +.BR inotify_add_watch (2). Two additional convenience macros are .BR IN_MOVE , @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ IN_CLOSE_WRITE|IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE. The following further bits can be specified in .I mask when calling -.BR inotify_add_watch (): +.BR inotify_add_watch (2): .in +0.25i .TS lB lB @@ -213,13 +213,13 @@ IN_ONLYDIR Only watch \fIpathname\fP if it is a directory The following bits may be set in the .I mask field returned by -.BR read (): +.BR read (2): .in +0.25i .TS lB lB lB l. Bit Description -IN_IGNORED Watch was removed explicitly (\fBinotify_rm_watch\fP()) +IN_IGNORED Watch was removed explicitly (\fBinotify_rm_watch\fP(2)) or automatically (file was deleted, or file system was unmounted) IN_ISDIR Subject of this event is a directory @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ correct order on the inotify file descriptor. The .B FIONREAD -.BR ioctl () +.BR ioctl (2) returns the number of bytes available to read from an inotify file descriptor. |