inotify_read
(PECL inotify >= 0.1.2)
inotify_read — Read events from an inotify instance
Description
inotify_read ( resource $inotify_instance ) : array
Read inotify events from an inotify instance.
Parameters
-
inotify_instance -
Resource returned by inotify_init()
Return Values
An array of inotify events or false if no events was pending and inotify_instance is non-blocking. Each event is an array with the following keys:
- wd is a watch descriptor returned by inotify_add_watch()
- mask is a bit mask of events
- cookie is a unique id to connect related events (e.g.
IN_MOVE_FROMandIN_MOVE_TO) - name is the name of a file (e.g. if a file was modified in a watched directory)
See Also
- inotify_init() - Initialize an inotify instance
- stream_select() - Runs the equivalent of the select() system call on the given arrays of streams with a timeout specified by tv_sec and tv_usec
- stream_set_blocking() - Set blocking/non-blocking mode on a stream
- inotify_queue_len() - Return a number upper than zero if there are pending events
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