<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Introduction</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="book.inotify.html">Inotify</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="inotify.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.inotify.html">Inotify</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="intro.inotify" class="preface"> <h1 class="title">Introduction</h1> <p class="para"> The inotify extension exposes the inotify functions <span class="function"><a href="function.inotify-init.html" class="function">inotify_init()</a></span>, <span class="function"><a href="function.inotify-add-watch.html" class="function">inotify_add_watch()</a></span> and <span class="function"><a href="function.inotify-rm-watch.html" class="function">inotify_rm_watch()</a></span>. </p> <p class="para"> As the C <span class="function"><a href="function.inotify-init.html" class="function">inotify_init()</a></span> function returns a file descriptor, PHP's <span class="function"><a href="function.inotify-init.html" class="function">inotify_init()</a></span> returns a stream resource, usable with standard stream functions, like <span class="function"><a href="function.stream-select.html" class="function">stream_select()</a></span>, <span class="function"><a href="function.stream-set-blocking.html" class="function">stream_set_blocking()</a></span> and <span class="function"><a href="function.fclose.html" class="function">fclose()</a></span>. <span class="function"><a href="function.inotify-read.html" class="function">inotify_read()</a></span> replaces the C way of reading inotify events. </p> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="book.inotify.html">Inotify</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="inotify.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.inotify.html">Inotify</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>
