<a href="http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/04/inotify-c-program-example/">Inotify Example: Introduction to Inotify with a C Program Example:

<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/inotify" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify" title="Inotify" rel="wikipedia">inotify utility is an effective tool to monitor and notify <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/file_system" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system" title="File system" rel="wikipedia">filesystem changes. You can specify a list of files and directories that needs to be monitored by inotify. This <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000023d0f" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library" title="Library" rel="wikipedia">library is used by various other programs. For example, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/cpan" href="http://www.cpan.org/" title="CPAN" rel="homepage">CPAN module Linux::Inotify is developed based on this library.
iNotify Execution Flow

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