BSD Ports

devel/libinotify 20240724 DragonFly

Kevent based inotify compatible library

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
MIT
Categories
devel
Package size
28.0 KiB, 93.7 KiB installed

Description

This library provides inotify-compatible interface for applications, that need to monitor changes happening in a filesystem. It can be useful when porting Linux applications, which often use inotify interface.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 20240724, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlydevel/libinotify20240724 newestnone known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDdevel/libinotify20240724_3 newestnone known-[email protected]-
OpenBSDdevel/libinotify20240724 newestno data-Kirill Bychkov <[email protected]>-
NetBSDdevel/libinotify0.0.20240724none known-[email protected]-
MidnightBSDdevel/libinotify20240724 newestno data-[email protected]-
HardenedBSDdevel/libinotify20240724_3 newestno data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDdevel/libinotify20240724_3 newestno data-[email protected]-
OPNsensedevel/libinotify20240724_3 newestno data-[email protected]-

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Install

Binary package:

pkg install libinotify

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/devel/libinotify && make install clean

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

You might want to consider increasing the kern.maxfiles tunable if you plan
to use this library for applications that need to monitor activity of a lot
of files.