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Read all available inotify events

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Loop reading from inotify fd in arl_handle(); requires non-blocking inotify fd.
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Bert Münnich 2017-05-17 20:14:36 +02:00
parent 6695cd4c34
commit 0e1a85d224
1 changed files with 32 additions and 27 deletions
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autoreload_inotify.c
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@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
* along with sxiv. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
@ -62,11 +63,14 @@ bool arl_handle(arl_t *arl, const char *filepath)
char *ptr;
const struct inotify_event *event;
for (;;) {
ssize_t len = read(arl->fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
if (len == -1)
return false;
if (len == -1) {
if (errno == EINTR)
continue;
break;
}
for (ptr = buf; ptr < buf + len; ptr += sizeof(*event) + event->len) {
event = (const struct inotify_event*) ptr;
@ -95,13 +99,14 @@ bool arl_handle(arl_t *arl, const char *filepath)
free(fntmp);
}
}
}
return reload;
}
void arl_init(arl_t *arl)
{
/* this needs to be done only once */
arl->fd = inotify_init();
arl->fd = inotify_init1(IN_CLOEXEC | IN_NONBLOCK);
arl->watching_dir = false;
if (arl->fd == -1)
error(0, 0, "Could not initialize inotify, no automatic image reloading");