Other possible events?

[sgbotsford]

Looking at the event flags, there doesn't seem to be one for file open/close events, and at least the Linux ionotify has this capability.

Also, is there any way to retrieve the name or process number of the program that did the opening?

[emcrisostomo]

I'll have a look at inotify's event flags: they may not be all supported and/or updated in the current version.

Also, is there any way to retrieve the name or process number of the program that did the opening?

Nope, at least not portably.

[jchook]

My main use case is "when I save a file, do something".

Currently fsevents does not satisfy this use case very well.

For example, using Atom editor:

• --event Updated yields three? of the same event on each save
• --event AttributeModified yields zero events on save

Comparing this to inotifywait, I have CLOSE_WRITE firing ONCE on each save.

[kuvaldini]

Hi? Where is the list of all possible events?

[kuvaldini]

Thanks. grep rules

  enum fsw_event_flag
  {
    NoOp = 0,                     /**< No event has occurred. */
    PlatformSpecific = (1 << 0),  /**< Platform-specific placeholder for event type that cannot currently be mapped. */
    Created = (1 << 1),           /**< An object was created. */
    Updated = (1 << 2),           /**< An object was updated. */
    Removed = (1 << 3),           /**< An object was removed. */
    Renamed = (1 << 4),           /**< An object was renamed. */
    OwnerModified = (1 << 5),     /**< The owner of an object was modified. */
    AttributeModified = (1 << 6), /**< The attributes of an object were modified. */
    MovedFrom = (1 << 7),         /**< An object was moved from this location. */
    MovedTo = (1 << 8),           /**< An object was moved to this location. */
    IsFile = (1 << 9),            /**< The object is a file. */
    IsDir = (1 << 10),            /**< The object is a directory. */
    IsSymLink = (1 << 11),        /**< The object is a symbolic link. */
    Link = (1 << 12),             /**< The link count of an object has changed. */
    Overflow = (1 << 13)          /**< The event queue has overflowed. */
  };

[nyngwang]

@jchook Did you solve it? If I was modifying my file (without saving it) some events also got triggered. I just want to catch one event: on-save.

[jchook]

I switched to fsnotify

Edit: there is a CLI called on.