Linux inotify for Erlang

Inotify is on erlang port for the Linux inotify API allowing one to monitor changes to files and directory in the filesystem.

• API Documentation
• Rebar3 Installation (hex)

Example

inotify_demo() ->
     inotify:start(x,y),
     TmpDir = inotify:watch("/tmp/", ?ALL),
     inotify:add_handler(TmpDir, ?MODULE, self()),

     file:open("/tmp/foo_bar_inotify_test", [read, write]),

     receive
         {[create],0,"foo_bar_inotify_test"} ->
             io:format("Yeah!~n");
     end.

For the full example refer to the unit test: https://github.com/sheyll/inotify/blob/master/test/inotify_test.erl

Release History

• 20180416 version 0.4.3 fix long file name handling
• 20180215 version 0.4.2 rebar3 and hex.pm support
• 2015???? version 0.4.1 don't build on windows
• 20130101 version 0.4.0 switch to rebar
• 20100206 version 0.3 on github
• 20090221 release 0.2 bug fix
• 20080929 initial release version 0.1