Inotify
Sign in to saveinotify (inode notify) is a Linux kernel subsystem created by John McCutchan, which monitors changes to the filesystem, and reports those changes to applications. It can be used to automatically update directory views, reload configuration files, log changes, backup, synchronize, and upload. The inotifywait and inotifywatch commands (maintained by Eric Curtin as part of the inotify-tools project) allow using the inotify subsystem from the command line. One major use is in desktop search utilities like Beagle, where its functionality permits reindexing of changed files without scanning the file
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Within Vinony's link graph, Inotify is referenced by 173 other articles, and connects out to Linux kernel, GNU C Library and Linux Foundation.
It is catalogued under the topic Linux kernel features.
Its subject is documented across 11 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Part of
- Linux kernel
- Has use
- desktop search
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- serverfault.com/tags/inotify
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