These function monitor changes in directories and files. More...
Data Structures | |
struct | _Eio_Monitor_Error |
struct | _Eio_Monitor_Event |
Typedefs | |
typedef struct _Eio_Monitor | Eio_Monitor |
typedef struct _Eio_Monitor_Error | Eio_Monitor_Error |
typedef struct _Eio_Monitor_Event | Eio_Monitor_Event |
Functions | |
Eio_Monitor * | eio_monitor_add (const char *path) |
Adds a file/directory to monitor (inotify mechanism) More... | |
Eio_Monitor * | eio_monitor_stringshared_add (const char *path) |
Adds a file/directory to monitor. More... | |
void | eio_monitor_del (Eio_Monitor *monitor) |
Deletes a path from the “watched” list. More... | |
const char * | eio_monitor_path_get (Eio_Monitor *monitor) |
returns the path being watched by the given Eio_Monitor. More... | |
Eina_Bool | eio_monitor_fallback_check (const Eio_Monitor *monitor) |
Check whether a monitor is using the fallback backend. More... | |
Eina_Bool | eio_monitor_has_context (const Eio_Monitor *monitor, const char *path) |
Check if a monitor has the context about a file or not. More... | |
Variables | |
int | EIO_MONITOR_FILE_CREATED |
A new file was created in a watched directory. | |
int | EIO_MONITOR_FILE_DELETED |
A watched file was deleted, or a file in a watched directory was deleted. | |
int | EIO_MONITOR_FILE_MODIFIED |
A file was modified in a watched directory. | |
int | EIO_MONITOR_FILE_CLOSED |
A file was closed in a watched directory. More... | |
int | EIO_MONITOR_DIRECTORY_CREATED |
A new directory was created in a watched directory. | |
int | EIO_MONITOR_DIRECTORY_DELETED |
A directory has been deleted: this can be either a watched directory or one of its subdirectories. | |
int | EIO_MONITOR_DIRECTORY_MODIFIED |
A directory has been modified in a watched directory. | |
int | EIO_MONITOR_DIRECTORY_CLOSED |
A directory has been closed in a watched directory. More... | |
int | EIO_MONITOR_SELF_RENAME |
The monitored path has been renamed, an error could happen just after if the renamed path doesn't exist. More... | |
int | EIO_MONITOR_SELF_DELETED |
The monitored path has been removed. More... | |
int | EIO_MONITOR_ERROR |
During operation the monitor failed and will no longer work. More... | |
These function monitor changes in directories and files.
These functions use the best available method to monitor changes on a specified directory or file. They send ecore events when changes occur, and they maintain internal refcounts to reduce resource consumption on duplicate monitor targets.
Eio_Monitor* eio_monitor_add | ( | const char * | path | ) |
Adds a file/directory to monitor (inotify mechanism)
path | file/directory to monitor |
This function will add the given path to its internal list of files to monitor. It utilizes the inotify mechanism introduced in kernel 2.6.13 for passive monitoring.
References EINA_SAFETY_ON_NULL_RETURN_VAL, eina_stringshare_add(), eina_stringshare_del(), and eio_monitor_stringshared_add().
Eio_Monitor* eio_monitor_stringshared_add | ( | const char * | path | ) |
Adds a file/directory to monitor.
path | file/directory to monitor |
This function is just like eio_monitor_add(), however the string passed by argument must be created using eina_stringshare_add().
References EINA_FALSE, eina_hash_del(), eina_hash_direct_add(), eina_hash_find(), EINA_REFCOUNT_INIT, EINA_REFCOUNT_REF, EINA_SAFETY_ON_NULL_RETURN_VAL, eina_stringshare_del(), eina_stringshare_ref(), EINA_TRUE, ERR, INF, and WRN.
Referenced by eio_monitor_add().
void eio_monitor_del | ( | Eio_Monitor * | monitor | ) |
Deletes a path from the “watched” list.
monitor | The Eio_Monitor you want to stop watching. It can only be an Eio_Monitor returned to you from calling eio_monitor_add() or eio_monitor_stringshared_add() |
References EINA_REFCOUNT_UNREF.
const char* eio_monitor_path_get | ( | Eio_Monitor * | monitor | ) |
returns the path being watched by the given Eio_Monitor.
monitor | Eio_Monitor to return the path of |
monitor
References EINA_SAFETY_ON_NULL_RETURN_VAL.
Eina_Bool eio_monitor_fallback_check | ( | const Eio_Monitor * | monitor | ) |
Check whether a monitor is using the fallback backend.
monitor | The Eio_Monitor to check |
Fallback monitors are unable to provide the CLOSED or RENAME events. It's important to check whether a monitor is a fallback monitor before relying on these events.
References EINA_FALSE, and EINA_SAFETY_ON_NULL_RETURN_VAL.
Eina_Bool eio_monitor_has_context | ( | const Eio_Monitor * | monitor, |
const char * | path | ||
) |
Check if a monitor has the context about a file or not.
monitor | The Eio_Monitor to check |
path | The path to check |
There are Monitors that need context about a file before they can monitor the file correctly. As an example: If you publish a file in your API before the monitor has this file in his context, and the file gets deleted as a reaction to this, the monitor will not be able to emit the correct DELETE event even if the file is in the monitors path.
In case the monitor does not yet have context, you can be sure that the monitor will bring up an FILE_ADD event about that file.
int EIO_MONITOR_FILE_CLOSED |
A file was closed in a watched directory.
This event is never sent on Windows and OSX, or for non-fallback monitors
int EIO_MONITOR_DIRECTORY_CLOSED |
A directory has been closed in a watched directory.
This event is never sent on Windows and OSX, or for non-fallback monitors
int EIO_MONITOR_SELF_RENAME |
The monitored path has been renamed, an error could happen just after if the renamed path doesn't exist.
This event is never sent on OSX, or for non-fallback monitors
int EIO_MONITOR_SELF_DELETED |
The monitored path has been removed.
This event is never sent on OSX
int EIO_MONITOR_ERROR |
During operation the monitor failed and will no longer work.
eio_monitor_del must be called on it.