# # # 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: "", completeStruct.} = 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: "".} ## Like `inotify_init<#inotify_init>`_ , ## but has a flags argument that provides access to some extra functionality. 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. runnableExamples("-r:off"): when defined(linux): import std/posix # needed for FileHandle read procedure const MaxWatches = 8192 let inotifyFd = inotify_init() # create new inotify instance and get it's FileHandle let wd = inotifyFd.inotify_add_watch("/tmp", IN_CREATE or IN_DELETE) # Add new watch var events: array[MaxWatches, byte] # event buffer while (let n = read(inotifyFd, addr events, MaxWatches); n) > 0: # blocks until any events have been read for e in inotify_events(addr events, n): echo (e[].wd, e[].mask, cast[cstring](addr e[].name)) # echo watch id, mask, and name value of each event 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 inotifyFd = inotify_init() # create and get new inotify FileHandle doAssert inotifyFd >= 0 # check for errors let wd = inotifyFd.inotify_add_watch("/tmp", IN_CREATE or IN_DELETE) # Add new watch doAssert wd >= 0 # check for errors discard inotifyFd.inotify_rm_watch(wd) # remove watch