man2/inotify_rm_watch.2

   1 .\" Copyright (C) 2005 Robert Love
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   3 .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
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   5 .\" 2005-07-19 Robert Love <rlove@rlove.org> - initial version
   6 .\" 2006-02-07 mtk, minor changes
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   8 .TH INOTIFY_RM_WATCH 2 2021-03-22 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
   9 .SH NAME
  10 inotify_rm_watch \- remove an existing watch from an inotify instance
  11 .SH LIBRARY
  12 Standard C library
  13 .RI ( libc ", " \-lc )
  14 .SH SYNOPSIS
  15 .nf
  16 .B #include <sys/inotify.h>
  17 .PP
  18 .BI "int inotify_rm_watch(int " fd ", int " wd );
  19 .\" Before glibc 2.10, the second argument was types as uint32_t.
  20 .\" http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7040
  21 .fi
  22 .SH DESCRIPTION
  23 .BR inotify_rm_watch ()
  24 removes the watch associated with the watch descriptor
  25 .I wd
  26 from the inotify instance associated with the file descriptor
  27 .IR fd .
  28 .PP
  29 Removing a watch causes an
  30 .B IN_IGNORED
  31 event to be generated for this watch descriptor.
  32 (See
  33 .BR inotify (7).)
  34 .SH RETURN VALUE
  35 On success,
  36 .BR inotify_rm_watch ()
  37 returns zero.
  38 On error, \-1 is returned and
  39 .I errno
  40 is set to indicate the error.
  41 .SH ERRORS
  42 .TP
  43 .B EBADF
  44 .I fd
  45 is not a valid file descriptor.
  46 .TP
  47 .B EINVAL
  48 The watch descriptor
  49 .I wd
  50 is not valid; or
  51 .I fd
  52 is not an inotify file descriptor.
  53 .SH VERSIONS
  54 Inotify was merged into the 2.6.13 Linux kernel.
  55 .SH STANDARDS
  56 This system call is Linux-specific.
  57 .SH SEE ALSO
  58 .BR inotify_add_watch (2),
  59 .BR inotify_init (2),
  60 .BR inotify (7)