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INOTIFY_INIT(2) 					     Linux Programmer's Manual						   INOTIFY_INIT(2)

NAME
       inotify_init, inotify_init1 - initialize an inotify instance

SYNOPSIS
       #include <sys/inotify.h>

       int inotify_init(void);
       int inotify_init1(int flags);

DESCRIPTION
       inotify_init() initializes a new inotify instance and returns a file descriptor associated with a new inotify event queue.

       If  flags  is 0, then inotify_init1() is the same as inotify_init().  The following values can be bitwise ORed in flags to obtain different
       behavior:

       IN_NONBLOCK Set the O_NONBLOCK file status flag on the new open file description.  Using this flag saves extra calls to fcntl(2) to achieve
		   the same result.

       IN_CLOEXEC  Set	the  close-on-exec (FD_CLOEXEC) flag on the new file descriptor.  See the description of the O_CLOEXEC flag in open(2) for
		   reasons why this may be useful.

RETURN VALUE
       On success, these system calls return a new file descriptor.  On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS
       EINVAL (inotify_init1()) An invalid value was specified in flags.

       EMFILE The user limit on the total number of inotify instances has been reached.

       ENFILE The system limit on the total number of file descriptors has been reached.

       ENOMEM Insufficient kernel memory is available.

VERSIONS
       inotify_init() first appeared in Linux 2.6.13.  inotify_init1() was added in Linux 2.6.27.

CONFORMING TO
       These system calls are Linux-specific.

SEE ALSO
       inotify_add_watch(2), inotify_rm_watch(2), inotify(7)

COLOPHON
       This page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs,  can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

Linux								    2008-10-10							   INOTIFY_INIT(2)