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1 | .\" -*-nroff-*- |
2 | .\" | |
3 | .\" Manual for watching for file changes | |
4 | .\" | |
5 | .\" (c) 2001, 2005, 2009, 2023, 2024 Straylight/Edgeware | |
6 | .\" | |
7 | . | |
8 | .\"----- Licensing notice --------------------------------------------------- | |
9 | .\" | |
10 | .\" This file is part of the mLib utilities library. | |
11 | .\" | |
12 | .\" mLib is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under | |
13 | .\" the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by | |
14 | .\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at | |
15 | .\" your option) any later version. | |
16 | .\" | |
17 | .\" mLib is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT | |
18 | .\" ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or | |
19 | .\" FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public | |
20 | .\" License for more details. | |
21 | .\" | |
22 | .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public | |
23 | .\" License along with mLib. If not, write to the Free Software | |
24 | .\" Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, | |
25 | .\" USA. | |
26 | . | |
27 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
28 | .so ../defs.man \" @@@PRE@@@ | |
29 | . | |
30 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
31 | .TH fwatch 3mLib "3 February 2001" "Straylight/Edgeware" "mLib utilities library" | |
32 | .\" @fwatch_init | |
33 | .\" @fwatch_initfd | |
34 | .\" @fwatch_update | |
35 | .\" @fwatch_updatefd | |
36 | . | |
37 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
38 | .SH NAME | |
39 | fwatch \- watch a file for changes | |
40 | . | |
41 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
42 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
43 | . | |
44 | .nf | |
45 | .B "#include <mLib/fwatch.h>" | |
46 | .PP | |
47 | .B "typedef struct { ...\& } fwatch;" | |
48 | .PP | |
49 | .BI "void fwatch_init(fwatch *" f ", const char *" name ); | |
50 | .BI "void fwatch_initfd(fwatch *" f ", int " fd ); | |
51 | .BI "int fwatch_update(fwatch *" f ", const char *" name ); | |
52 | .BI "int fwatch_updatefd(fwatch *" f ", int " fd ); | |
53 | .fi | |
54 | . | |
55 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
56 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
57 | . | |
58 | These functions watch a file for changes. Use | |
59 | .B fwatch_init | |
60 | or | |
61 | .B fwatch_initfd | |
62 | to initialize a | |
63 | .B fwatch | |
64 | block with information about a file; then later, the functions | |
65 | .B fwatch_update | |
66 | and | |
67 | .B fwatch_updatefd | |
68 | will update the information in the structure and inform you whether the | |
69 | file changed. | |
70 | .PP | |
71 | The | |
72 | .B fwatch | |
73 | functions can't return errors: they remember errors as part of the file | |
74 | state instead. The | |
75 | .B update | |
76 | functions return zero if the file has not changed or nonzero if it has. | |
77 | . | |
78 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
79 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
80 | . | |
81 | .BR mLib (3). | |
82 | . | |
83 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
84 | .SH AUTHOR | |
85 | . | |
86 | Mark Wooding, <mdw@distorted.org.uk> | |
87 | . | |
88 | .\"----- That's all, folks -------------------------------------------------- |