Comments on: Inotify Example: Introduction to Inotify with a C Program Example

By: Lakshmanan

Lakshmanan — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 07:49:44 +0000

Does, inofify works on /proc file system. I’ve just tested it, and it seems it is not working.

By: John Hascall

John Hascall — Wed, 18 May 2011 21:03:26 +0000

Arrrg, your comment thingy ate the angle brackets!
anyway, include sys/inotify.h instead of linux/inotify.h

By: John Hascall

John Hascall — Wed, 18 May 2011 21:02:07 +0000

You should use
#include
rather than
#include

Also, the program would be more interesting if you added an outer loop:
for (;;) {
length = read( fd …
…
}
inotify_rm_watch( …

so you’d get more than one event per run.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:23:12 +0000

do u hav any program regarding Graphic…

By: RogueWarrior65

RogueWarrior65 — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 03:26:30 +0000

This doesn’t work for me. When I run it, it tells me /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4′ not found. I checked dpkg -l libc6 and it says “ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13et GNU C Library: Shared libraries”

By: Suhas MK

Suhas MK — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:19:11 +0000

Informative and helpful. Thank You.

By: scott

scott — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:07:49 +0000

Ramesh: Can you give us an example of where (why) you’d use inotify.
Thx!
-Scott

By: ChineseGeek

ChineseGeek — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:33:25 +0000

No problem! Great blog by the way!

By: Ramesh Natarajan

Ramesh Natarajan — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:56:17 +0000

@ChineseGeek, @adiascem,

Thanks for pointing out the issue. I’ve fixed it.

By: adiascem

adiascem — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:27:23 +0000

length = read( fd, buffer, BUF_LEN ); /*change BUF_LEN to EVENT_BUF_LEN*/