hinotify: Haskell binding to inotify

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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.

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Versions [RSS]	0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.3.1, 0.3.2, 0.3.3, 0.3.4, 0.3.5, 0.3.6, 0.3.7, 0.3.8, 0.3.8.1, 0.3.9, 0.3.10, 0.4, 0.4.1, 0.4.2 (info)
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Dependencies	async (>=2 && <3), base (>=4.5.0.0 && <5), bytestring, containers, unix [details]
License	BSD-3-Clause
Author	Lennart Kolmodin
Maintainer	Tom McLaughlin <tom@codedown.io>
Category	System
Home page	https://github.com/kolmodin/hinotify
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Source repo	head: git clone git://github.com/kolmodin/hinotify.git
Uploaded	by thomasjm at 2025-02-21T01:24:27Z
Distributions	Arch:0.4.1, Debian:0.4, Fedora:0.4.1, FreeBSD:0.3.8.1, LTSHaskell:0.4.2, NixOS:0.4.1, Stackage:0.4.2, openSUSE:0.4.1
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hinotify: inotify for Haskell

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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.