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System Calls - Manual Reference Pages  - INOTIFY_INIT (2)

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inotify_init - initialize an inotify instance

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--> #include <sys/inotify.h>

int inotify_init(void)

inotify_init() initializes a new inotify instance and returns a file descriptor associated with a new inotify event queue.

On success, inotify_init() returns a new file descriptor, or -1 if an error occurred (in which case, errno is set appropriately).

EMFILE	The user limit on the total number of inotify instances has been reached.
ENFILE	The system limit on the total number of file descriptors has been reached.
ENOMEM	Insufficient kernel memory is available.

Inotify was merged into the 2.6.13 Linux kernel.

This system call is Linux specific.

inotify_add_watch(2), inotify_rm_watch(2), inotify(7). or go to Top of page |  Section 2 |  Main Man Index.