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      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