Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Man page of INOTIFY_INIT
INOTIFY_INIT
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (2)
Updated: 2015-12-28
Index
Return to Main Contents
NAME
inotify_init, inotify_init1 - initialize an inotify instance
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/inotify.h>
int inotify_init(void);
int inotify_init1(int flags);
DESCRIPTION
For an overview of the inotify API, see
inotify(7).
inotify_init()
initializes a new inotify instance and returns a file descriptor associated
with a new inotify event queue.
If
flags
is 0, then
inotify_init1()
is the same as
inotify_init().
The following values can be bitwise ORed in
flags
to obtain different behavior:
- IN_NONBLOCK
-
Set the
O_NONBLOCK
file status flag on the new open file description.
Using this flag saves extra calls to
fcntl(2)
to achieve the same result.
- IN_CLOEXEC
-
Set the close-on-exec
(FD_CLOEXEC)
flag on the new file descriptor.
See the description of the
O_CLOEXEC
flag in
open(2)
for reasons why this may be useful.
RETURN VALUE
On success, these system calls return a new file descriptor.
On error, -1 is returned, and
errno
is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
- EINVAL
-
(inotify_init1())
An invalid value was specified in
flags.
- EMFILE
-
The user limit on the total number of inotify instances has been reached.
- EMFILE
-
The per-process limit on the number of open file descriptors has been reached.
- ENFILE
-
The system-wide limit on the total number of open files has been reached.
- ENOMEM
-
Insufficient kernel memory is available.
VERSIONS
inotify_init()
first appeared in Linux 2.6.13;
library support was added to glibc in version 2.4.
inotify_init1()
was added in Linux 2.6.27;
library support was added to glibc in version 2.9.
CONFORMING TO
These system calls are Linux-specific.
SEE ALSO
inotify_add_watch(2),
inotify_rm_watch(2),
inotify(7)
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 4.09 of the Linux
man-pages
project.
A description of the project,
information about reporting bugs,
and the latest version of this page,
can be found at
https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
Index
- NAME
-
- SYNOPSIS
-
- DESCRIPTION
-
- RETURN VALUE
-
- ERRORS
-
- VERSIONS
-
- CONFORMING TO
-
- SEE ALSO
-
- COLOPHON
-
This document was created by
man2html,
using the manual pages.
Time: 14:28:27 GMT, February 25, 2017