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Elliott Hughes5dec78d2014-02-26 15:56:23 -08001/*
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/* the following are legal, implemented events that user-space can watch for */
11#define IN_ACCESS 0x00000001 /* File was accessed */
12#define IN_MODIFY 0x00000002 /* File was modified */
13#define IN_ATTRIB 0x00000004 /* Metadata changed */
14#define IN_CLOSE_WRITE 0x00000008 /* Writtable file was closed */
15#define IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE 0x00000010 /* Unwrittable file closed */
16#define IN_OPEN 0x00000020 /* File was opened */
17#define IN_MOVED_FROM 0x00000040 /* File was moved from X */
18#define IN_MOVED_TO 0x00000080 /* File was moved to Y */
19#define IN_CREATE 0x00000100 /* Subfile was created */
20#define IN_DELETE 0x00000200 /* Subfile was deleted */
21#define IN_DELETE_SELF 0x00000400 /* Self was deleted */
22#define IN_MOVE_SELF 0x00000800 /* Self was moved */
23
24/* the following are legal events. they are sent as needed to any watch */
25#define IN_UNMOUNT 0x00002000 /* Backing fs was unmounted */
26#define IN_Q_OVERFLOW 0x00004000 /* Event queued overflowed */
27#define IN_IGNORED 0x00008000 /* File was ignored */
28
29/* helper events */
30#define IN_CLOSE (IN_CLOSE_WRITE | IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE) /* close */
31#define IN_MOVE (IN_MOVED_FROM | IN_MOVED_TO) /* moves */
32
33/* special flags */
34#define IN_ONLYDIR 0x01000000 /* only watch the path if it is a directory */
35#define IN_DONT_FOLLOW 0x02000000 /* don't follow a sym link */
36#define IN_EXCL_UNLINK 0x04000000 /* exclude events on unlinked objects */
37#define IN_MASK_ADD 0x20000000 /* add to the mask of an already existing watch */
38#define IN_ISDIR 0x40000000 /* event occurred against dir */
39#define IN_ONESHOT 0x80000000 /* only send event once */
40
41
42#endif /* _LINUX_INOTIFY_H */