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inotify_event

INotify event structure

Declaration

Source position: linux.pp line 377

type inotify_event = record

  wd: cint;

  

Watch descriptor (as returned by inotify_add_watch)

  mask: cuint32;

  

Event mask

  cookie: cuint32;

  

Cookie, used to pair move events

  len: cuint32;

  

Length of name

  name: Char;

  

Filename for which a change is reported

end;

Description

inotify_event is the structure used to report changes in a directory. When reading a inotify file descriptor, one or more inotify_event records can be read from the file descriptor.

See also

baseunix.fpread

  

Read data from file descriptor

sysutils.FileRead

  

Read data from a filehandle in a buffer.


Documentation generated on: Nov 16 2015