linux/inotify.h

/*
 * Inode based directory notification for Linux
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2005 John McCutchan
 */

#ifndef _LINUX_INOTIFY_H
#define _LINUX_INOTIFY_H

/* the following are legal, implemented events that user-space can watch for */
#define IN_ACCESS		0x00000001	/* File was accessed */
#define IN_MODIFY		0x00000002	/* File was modified */
#define IN_ATTRIB		0x00000004	/* Metadata changed */
#define IN_CLOSE_WRITE		0x00000008	/* Writtable file was closed */
#define IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE	0x00000010	/* Unwrittable file closed */
#define IN_OPEN			0x00000020	/* File was opened */
#define IN_MOVED_FROM		0x00000040	/* File was moved from X */
#define IN_MOVED_TO		0x00000080	/* File was moved to Y */
#define IN_CREATE		0x00000100	/* Subfile was created */
#define IN_DELETE		0x00000200	/* Subfile was deleted */
#define IN_DELETE_SELF		0x00000400	/* Self was deleted */
#define IN_MOVE_SELF		0x00000800	/* Self was moved */

/* the following are legal events.  they are sent as needed to any watch */
#define IN_UNMOUNT		0x00002000	/* Backing fs was unmounted */
#define IN_Q_OVERFLOW		0x00004000	/* Event queued overflowed */
#define IN_IGNORED		0x00008000	/* File was ignored */

/* helper events */
#define IN_CLOSE		(IN_CLOSE_WRITE | IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE) /* close */
#define IN_MOVE			(IN_MOVED_FROM | IN_MOVED_TO) /* moves */

/* special flags */
#define IN_ONLYDIR		0x01000000	/* only watch the path if it is a directory */
#define IN_DONT_FOLLOW		0x02000000	/* don't follow a sym link */
#define IN_EXCL_UNLINK		0x04000000	/* exclude events on unlinked objects */
#define IN_MASK_ADD		0x20000000	/* add to the mask of an already existing watch */
#define IN_ISDIR		0x40000000	/* event occurred against dir */
#define IN_ONESHOT		0x80000000	/* only send event once */


#endif /* _LINUX_INOTIFY_H */