name: linux-inotify version: 0.3.0.0 synopsis: Thinner binding to the Linux Kernel's inotify interface description: This is a binding for GHC 7 to the Linux Kernel's inotify interface, which provides notifications to applications regarding file system events, such as file creation, modification, deletion, etc. . Some of the advantages over hinotify are: . 1. linux-inotify provides a plain getEvent operator that blocks, instead of implementing a callback API. . 2. linux-inotify avoids most of GHC's standard IO handling code, relying on plain system calls with minimal overhead in Haskell-land. (However, it still does make good use of GHC's IO manager via nonblocking inotify sockets and threadWaitRead, so getEvent is still efficient.) . 3. linux-inotify does not call forkIO, which means less context switching and scheduling overhead, especially in contexts where hinotify's particular event router isn't a very good fit for your application; e.g. you are implementing a following log file processor. . Some of the disadvantages compared to hinotify are: . 1. Due to the use of `inotify_init1`, `linux-inotify` currently requires linux 2.6.27 or later, even though `inotify` support debuted in linux 2.6.13. You can check which version of linux is on a machine via `uname` `-a`. I would like to fix this at some point, but it isn't a personal priority. . 2. `linux-inotify` requires GHC 7.8.1 or later, whereas `hinotify` works with many versions of GHC 6. I have no plans to fix this. license: BSD3 license-file: LICENSE author: Leon P Smith maintainer: leon@melding-monads.com copyright: (c) 2013-2015 Leon P Smith category: System build-type: Simple cabal-version: >=1.8 Extra-Doc-Files: CHANGES.md library hs-source-dirs: src exposed-modules: System.Linux.Inotify build-depends: base >= 4.7 && < 5, bytestring >= 0.10.4, hashable >= 1.1.2, unix ghc-options: -Wall source-repository head type: git location: http://github.com/lpsmith/linux-inotify source-repository this type: git location: http://github.com/lpsmith/linux-inotify tag: v0.2.0.1