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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/posix/inotify.nim | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/posix/inotify.nim b/lib/posix/inotify.nim index 79b408425..db698c59c 100644 --- a/lib/posix/inotify.nim +++ b/lib/posix/inotify.nim @@ -73,6 +73,20 @@ proc inotify_rm_watch*(fd: cint; wd: cint): cint {.cdecl, importc: "inotify_rm_watch", header: "<sys/inotify.h>".} ## Remove the watch specified by WD from the inotify instance FD. +iterator inotify_events*(evs: pointer, n: int): ptr InotifyEvent = + ## Abstract the packed buffer interface to yield event object pointers. + ## + ## .. code-block:: Nim + ## var evs = newSeq[byte](8192) # Already did inotify_init+add_watch + ## while (let n = read(fd, evs[0].addr, 8192); n) > 0: # read forever + ## for e in inotify_events(evs[0].addr, n): echo e[].len # echo name lens + var ev: ptr InotifyEvent = cast[ptr InotifyEvent](evs) + var n = n + while n > 0: + yield ev + let sz = InotifyEvent.sizeof + int(ev[].len) + n -= sz + ev = cast[ptr InotifyEvent](cast[uint](ev) + uint(sz)) runnableExamples: when defined(linux): |