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 /* 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 */ 43