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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers unix return codes Post 97184 by blowtorch on Friday 27th of January 2006 12:47:18 AM
Old 01-27-2006
This is a decision that is for you to take. The convention is that you return 0 on successful and -1 if not. If you have multiple exit statii (--cringe--), you can decide what exit status will stand for what.
 

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FAM_MONITOR_DIRECTORY(3)						 1						  FAM_MONITOR_DIRECTORY(3)

fam_monitor_directory - Monitor a directory for changes

SYNOPSIS
resource fam_monitor_directory (resource $fam, string $dirname) DESCRIPTION
Requests monitoring for a directory and all contained files. A FAM event will be generated whenever the status of the directory (i.e. the result of function stat(3) on that directory) or its content (i.e. the results of readdir(3)) changes. The possible event codes are described in detail in the constants part of this section. PARAMETERS
o $fam - A resource representing a connection to the FAM service returned by fam_open(3) o $dirname - Path to the monitored directory RETURN VALUES
Returns a monitoring resource or FALSE on errors. SEE ALSO
fam_monitor_file(3), fam_monitor_collection(3), fam_cancel_monitor(3), fam_suspend_monitor(3), fam_resume_monitor(3). PHP Documentation Group FAM_MONITOR_DIRECTORY(3)
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