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Tizen Native API
3.0
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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.
Functions | |
| Eio_Monitor * | eio_monitor_add (const char *path) |
| Adds a file/directory to monitor (inotify mechanism) | |
| Eio_Monitor * | eio_monitor_stringshared_add (const char *path) |
| Adds a file/directory to monitor. | |
| void | eio_monitor_del (Eio_Monitor *monitor) |
| Deletes a path from the “watched” list. | |
| const char * | eio_monitor_path_get (Eio_Monitor *monitor) |
| returns the path being watched by the given Eio_Monitor. | |
Function Documentation
| Eio_Monitor* eio_monitor_add | ( | const char * | path | ) |
Adds a file/directory to monitor (inotify mechanism)
- Parameters:
-
path file/directory to monitor
- Returns:
- NULL in case of a failure or a pointer to the monitor in case of success.
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.
- Since :
- 3.0
| void eio_monitor_del | ( | Eio_Monitor * | monitor | ) |
Deletes a path from the “watched” list.
- Parameters:
-
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()
- Since :
- 3.0
| const char* eio_monitor_path_get | ( | Eio_Monitor * | monitor | ) |
returns the path being watched by the given Eio_Monitor.
- Parameters:
-
monitor Eio_Monitor to return the path of
- Returns:
- The stringshared path belonging to
monitor
- Since :
- 3.0
| Eio_Monitor* eio_monitor_stringshared_add | ( | const char * | path | ) |
Adds a file/directory to monitor.
- Parameters:
-
path file/directory to monitor
- Returns:
- NULL in case of a failure or a pointer to the monitor in case of success.
- Warning:
- Do NOT pass non-stringshared strings to this function! If you don't know what this means, use eio_monitor_add().
This fuction is just like eio_monitor_add(), however the string passed by argument must be created using eina_stringshare_add().
- Since :
- 3.0
Variable Documentation
A directory has been closed in a watched directory. This event is never sent on Windows and OSX
A new directory was created in a watched directory
A directory has been deleted: this can be either a watched directory or one of its subdirectories
A directory has been modified in a watched directory
During operation the monitor failed and will no longer work. eio_monitor_del must be called on it.
A file was closed in a watched directory. This event is never sent on Windows and OSX
A new file was created in a watched directory
A watched file was deleted, or a file in a watched directory was deleted
A file was modified in a watched directory
The monitored path has been removed. This event is never sent on OSX
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