# # # Nim's Runtime Library # (c) Copyright 2012 Dominik Picheta # # See the file "copying.txt", included in this # distribution, for details about the copyright. # when defined(nimPreviewSlimSystem): import std/syncio # Get the platform-dependent flags. # Structure describing an inotify event. type InotifyEvent* {.pure, final, importc: "struct inotify_event", header: "".} = object ## An Inotify event. wd* {.importc: "wd".}: FileHandle ## Watch descriptor. mask* {.importc: "mask".}: uint32 ## Watch mask. cookie* {.importc: "cookie".}: uint32 ## Cookie to synchronize two events. len* {.importc: "len".}: uint32 ## Length (including NULs) of name. name* {.importc: "name".}: char ## Name. # Supported events suitable for MASK parameter of INOTIFY_ADD_WATCH. const IN_ACCESS* = 0x00000001 ## File was accessed. IN_MODIFY* = 0x00000002 ## File was modified. IN_ATTRIB* = 0x00000004 ## Metadata changed. IN_CLOSE_WRITE* = 0x00000008 ## Writtable file was closed. IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE* = 0x00000010 ## Unwrittable file closed. IN_CLOSE* = (IN_CLOSE_WRITE or IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE) ## Close. IN_OPEN* = 0x00000020 ## File was opened. IN_MOVED_FROM* = 0x00000040 ## File was moved from X. IN_MOVED_TO* = 0x00000080 ## File was moved to Y. IN_MOVE* = (IN_MOVED_FROM or IN_MOVED_TO) ## Moves. IN_CREATE* = 0x00000100 ## Subfile was created. IN_DELETE* = 0x00000200 ## Subfile was deleted. IN_DELETE_SELF* = 0x00000400 ## Self was deleted. IN_MOVE_SELF* = 0x00000800 ## Self was moved. # Events sent by the kernel. const IN_UNMOUNT* = 0x00002000 ## Backing fs was unmounted. IN_Q_OVERFLOW* = 0x00004000 ## Event queued overflowed. IN_IGNORED* = 0x00008000 ## File was ignored. # Special flags. const IN_ONLYDIR* = 0x01000000 ## Only watch the path if it is a directory. IN_DONT_FOLLOW* = 0x02000000 ## Do not follow a sym link. IN_EXCL_UNLINK* = 0x04000000 ## Exclude events on unlinked objects. IN_MASK_ADD* = 0x20000000 ## Add to the mask of an already existing watch. IN_ISDIR* = 0x40000000 ## Event occurred against dir. IN_ONESHOT* = 0x80000000 ## Only send event once. # All events which a program can wait on. const IN_ALL_EVENTS* = (IN_ACCESS or IN_MODIFY or IN_ATTRIB or IN_CLOSE_WRITE or IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE or IN_OPEN or IN_MOVED_FROM or IN_MOVED_TO or IN_CREATE or IN_DELETE or IN_DELETE_SELF or IN_MOVE_SELF) proc inotify_init*(): FileHandle {.cdecl, importc: "inotify_init", header: "".} ## Create and initialize inotify instance. proc inotify_init1*(flags: cint): FileHandle {.cdecl, importc: "inotify_init1", header: "".} ## Create and initialize inotify instance. proc inotify_add_watch*(fd: cint; name: cstring; mask: uint32): cint {.cdecl, importc: "inotify_add_watch", header: "".} ## Add watch of object NAME to inotify instance FD. Notify about events specified by MASK. proc inotify_rm_watch*(fd: cint; wd: cint): cint {.cdecl, importc: "inotify_rm_watch", header: "".} ## 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. ## ```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): let inoty: FileHandle = inotify_init() ## Create 1 Inotify. doAssert inoty >= 0 ## Check for errors (FileHandle is alias to cint). let watchdoge: cint = inotify_add_watch(inoty, ".", IN_ALL_EVENTS) ## Add directory to watchdog. doAssert watchdoge >= 0 ## Check for errors. doAssert inotify_rm_watch(inoty, watchdoge) >= 0 ## Remove directory from the watchdog