Haskell binding to inotify.

This library provides a wrapper to the Linux Kernel's inotify feature, allowing applications to subscribe to notifications when a file is accessed or modified.

hinotify: inotify for Haskell

About

This package provides bindings to inotify, which has been part of the Linux kernel since 2.6.13.

The inotify subsystem provides file system event notifications. Simply add a watcher to a file or directory and you get events when it is accessed, modified, etc.

News

See CHANGELOG.md.

API

The API basically consists of:

initINotify :: IO INotify

addWatch :: INotify
         -> [EventVariety]   -- different events to listen on
         -> RawFilePath      -- file/directory to watch
         -> (Event -> IO ()) -- event handler callback
         -> IO WatchDescriptor

removeWatch :: WatchDescriptor -> IO ()

See this example or the docs.

Author

Lennart Kolmodin

kolmodin at gmail.com

Legal

This software is released under a BSD-style license. See LICENSE for more details.

Copyright © 2007-2012 Lennart Kolmodin.