INOTIFY_RM_WATCH(2)                                 Linux Programmer's Manual                                INOTIFY_RM_WATCH(2)



NAME
       inotify_rm_watch - remove an existing watch from an inotify instance

SYNOPSIS
       #include <sys/inotify.h>

       int inotify_rm_watch(int fd, uint32_t wd);

DESCRIPTION
       inotify_rm_watch()  removes  the  watch associated with the watch descriptor wd from the inotify instance associated with
       the file descriptor fd.

       Removing a watch causes an IN_IGNORED event to be generated for this watch descriptor.  (See inotify(7).)

RETURN VALUE
       On success, inotify_rm_watch() returns zero, or -1 if an error occurred (in which case, errno is set appropriately).

ERRORS
       EBADF  fd is not a valid file descriptor.

       EINVAL The watch descriptor wd is not valid; or fd is not an inotify file descriptor.

VERSIONS
       Inotify was merged into the 2.6.13 Linux kernel.

CONFORMING TO
       This system call is Linux-specific.

SEE ALSO
       inotify_add_watch(2), inotify_init(2), inotify(7)

COLOPHON
       This page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project,  and  information  about
       reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



Linux                                                      2006-02-07                                        INOTIFY_RM_WATCH(2)