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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 3.24 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)
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