2006-02-08 04:13:22 +00:00
|
|
|
.\" man2/inotify_rm_watch.2 - inotify_rm_watch man page
|
|
|
|
.\"
|
|
|
|
.\" Copyright (C) 2005 Robert Love
|
|
|
|
.\"
|
|
|
|
.\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or
|
|
|
|
.\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
|
|
|
|
.\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
|
|
|
|
.\" the License, or (at your option) any later version.
|
|
|
|
.\"
|
|
|
|
.\" The GNU General Public License's references to "object code"
|
|
|
|
.\" and "executables" are to be interpreted as the output of any
|
|
|
|
.\" document formatting or typesetting system, including
|
|
|
|
.\" intermediate and printed output.
|
|
|
|
.\"
|
|
|
|
.\" This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
|
|
|
|
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
|
|
|
|
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
|
|
|
|
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
|
|
|
|
.\"
|
|
|
|
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
|
|
|
|
.\" License along with this manual; if not, write to the Free
|
|
|
|
.\" Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111,
|
|
|
|
.\" USA.
|
|
|
|
.\"
|
|
|
|
.\" 2005-07-19 Robert Love <rlove@rlove.org> - initial version
|
|
|
|
.\" 2006-02-07 mtk, minor changes
|
|
|
|
.\"
|
|
|
|
.TH INOTIFY_RM_WATCH 2 2006-02-07 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
|
|
|
|
.SH NAME
|
|
|
|
inotify_rm_watch \- remove an existing watch from an inotify instance
|
|
|
|
.SH SYNOPSIS
|
2006-06-02 19:43:30 +00:00
|
|
|
.B #include <sys/inotify.h>
|
2006-02-08 04:13:22 +00:00
|
|
|
.sp
|
|
|
|
.BI "int inotify_rm_watch(int " fd ", uint32_t " wd );
|
|
|
|
.SH DESCRIPTION
|
|
|
|
.BR inotify_rm_watch ()
|
|
|
|
removes the watch associated with the watch descriptor
|
|
|
|
.I wd
|
|
|
|
from the inotify instance associated with the file descriptor
|
|
|
|
.IR fd .
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Removing a watch causes an
|
|
|
|
.B IN_IGNORED
|
|
|
|
event to be generated for this watch descriptor. (See
|
|
|
|
.BR inotify (7).)
|
|
|
|
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
|
|
|
|
On success,
|
|
|
|
.BR inotify_rm_watch ()
|
|
|
|
returns zero, or \-1 if an error occurred (in which case,
|
|
|
|
.I errno
|
|
|
|
is set appropriately).
|
|
|
|
.SH ERRORS
|
|
|
|
.TP
|
|
|
|
.B EBADF
|
2006-07-21 00:08:32 +00:00
|
|
|
.I fd
|
2006-02-08 04:13:22 +00:00
|
|
|
is not a valid file descriptor.
|
|
|
|
.TP
|
|
|
|
.B EINVAL
|
|
|
|
The watch descriptor
|
|
|
|
.I wd
|
2006-06-05 02:34:19 +00:00
|
|
|
is not valid; or
|
|
|
|
.I fd
|
|
|
|
is not an inotify file descriptor.
|
2006-02-08 04:13:22 +00:00
|
|
|
.SH "HISTORY"
|
|
|
|
Inotify was merged into the 2.6.13 Linux kernel.
|
|
|
|
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
|
|
|
|
This system call is Linux specific.
|
|
|
|
.SH "SEE ALSO"
|
|
|
|
.BR inotify_init (2),
|
|
|
|
.BR inotify_add_watch (2),
|
|
|
|
.BR inotify (7).
|