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use std::{
io,
os::unix::io::{
AsFd,
AsRawFd,
BorrowedFd,
FromRawFd,
IntoRawFd,
OwnedFd,
RawFd,
},
path::Path,
sync::{
atomic::AtomicBool,
Arc,
}
};
use inotify_sys as ffi;
use libc::{
F_GETFL,
F_SETFL,
O_NONBLOCK,
fcntl,
};
use crate::events::Events;
use crate::fd_guard::FdGuard;
use crate::util::read_into_buffer;
use crate::watches::{
WatchDescriptor,
WatchMask,
Watches,
};
#[cfg(feature = "stream")]
use crate::stream::EventStream;
/// Idiomatic Rust wrapper around Linux's inotify API
///
/// `Inotify` is a wrapper around an inotify instance. It generally tries to
/// adhere to the underlying inotify API closely, while making access to it
/// safe and convenient.
///
/// Please refer to the [top-level documentation] for further details and a
/// usage example.
///
/// [top-level documentation]: crate
#[derive(Debug)]
pub struct Inotify {
fd: Arc<FdGuard>,
}
impl Inotify {
/// Creates an [`Inotify`] instance
///
/// Initializes an inotify instance by calling [`inotify_init1`].
///
/// This method passes both flags accepted by [`inotify_init1`], not giving
/// the user any choice in the matter, as not passing the flags would be
/// inappropriate in the context of this wrapper:
///
/// - [`IN_CLOEXEC`] prevents leaking file descriptors to other processes.
/// - [`IN_NONBLOCK`] controls the blocking behavior of the inotify API,
/// which is entirely managed by this wrapper.
///
/// # Errors
///
/// Directly returns the error from the call to [`inotify_init1`], without
/// adding any error conditions of its own.
///
/// # Examples
///
/// ```
/// use inotify::Inotify;
///
/// let inotify = Inotify::init()
/// .expect("Failed to initialize an inotify instance");
/// ```
///
/// [`inotify_init1`]: inotify_sys::inotify_init1
/// [`IN_CLOEXEC`]: inotify_sys::IN_CLOEXEC
/// [`IN_NONBLOCK`]: inotify_sys::IN_NONBLOCK
pub fn init() -> io::Result<Inotify> {
let fd = unsafe {
// Initialize inotify and pass both `IN_CLOEXEC` and `IN_NONBLOCK`.
//
// `IN_NONBLOCK` is needed, because `Inotify` manages blocking
// behavior for the API consumer, and the way we do that is to make
// everything non-blocking by default and later override that as
// required.
//
// Passing `IN_CLOEXEC` prevents leaking file descriptors to
// processes executed by this process and seems to be a best
// practice. I don't grasp this issue completely and failed to find
// any authoritative sources on the topic. There's some discussion in
// the open(2) and fcntl(2) man pages, but I didn't find that
// helpful in understanding the issue of leaked file descriptors.
// For what it's worth, there's a Rust issue about this:
// https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/12148
ffi::inotify_init1(ffi::IN_CLOEXEC | ffi::IN_NONBLOCK)
};
if fd == -1 {
return Err(io::Error::last_os_error());
}
Ok(Inotify {
fd: Arc::new(FdGuard {
fd,
close_on_drop: AtomicBool::new(true),
}),
})
}
/// Gets an interface that allows adding and removing watches.
/// See [`Watches::add`] and [`Watches::remove`].
pub fn watches(&self) -> Watches {
Watches::new(self.fd.clone())
}
/// Deprecated: use `Inotify.watches().add()` instead
#[deprecated = "use `Inotify.watches().add()` instead"]
pub fn add_watch<P>(&mut self, path: P, mask: WatchMask)
-> io::Result<WatchDescriptor>
where P: AsRef<Path>
{
self.watches().add(path, mask)
}
/// Deprecated: use `Inotify.watches().remove()` instead
#[deprecated = "use `Inotify.watches().remove()` instead"]
pub fn rm_watch(&mut self, wd: WatchDescriptor) -> io::Result<()> {
self.watches().remove(wd)
}
/// Waits until events are available, then returns them
///
/// Blocks the current thread until at least one event is available. If this
/// is not desirable, please consider [`Inotify::read_events`].
///
/// This method calls [`Inotify::read_events`] internally and behaves
/// essentially the same, apart from the blocking behavior. Please refer to
/// the documentation of [`Inotify::read_events`] for more information.
pub fn read_events_blocking<'a>(&mut self, buffer: &'a mut [u8])
-> io::Result<Events<'a>>
{
unsafe {
let res = fcntl(**self.fd, F_GETFL);
if res == -1 {
return Err(io::Error::last_os_error());
}
if fcntl(**self.fd, F_SETFL, res & !O_NONBLOCK) == -1 {
return Err(io::Error::last_os_error());
}
};
let result = self.read_events(buffer);
unsafe {
let res = fcntl(**self.fd, F_GETFL);
if res == -1 {
return Err(io::Error::last_os_error());
}
if fcntl(**self.fd, F_SETFL, res | O_NONBLOCK) == -1 {
return Err(io::Error::last_os_error());
}
};
result
}
/// Returns one buffer's worth of available events
///
/// Reads as many events as possible into `buffer`, and returns an iterator
/// over them. If no events are available, an iterator is still returned. If
/// you need a method that will block until at least one event is available,
/// please consider [`read_events_blocking`].
///
/// Please note that inotify will merge identical successive unread events
/// into a single event. This means this method can not be used to count the
/// number of file system events.
///
/// The `buffer` argument, as the name indicates, is used as a buffer for
/// the inotify events. Its contents may be overwritten.
///
/// # Errors
///
/// This function directly returns all errors from the call to [`read`].
/// In addition, [`ErrorKind::UnexpectedEof`] is returned, if the call to
/// [`read`] returns `0`, signaling end-of-file.
///
/// If `buffer` is too small, this will result in an error with
/// [`ErrorKind::InvalidInput`]. On very old Linux kernels,
/// [`ErrorKind::UnexpectedEof`] will be returned instead.
///
/// # Examples
///
/// ```no_run
/// use inotify::Inotify;
/// use std::io::ErrorKind;
///
/// let mut inotify = Inotify::init()
/// .expect("Failed to initialize an inotify instance");
///
/// let mut buffer = [0; 1024];
/// let events = loop {
/// match inotify.read_events(&mut buffer) {
/// Ok(events) => break events,
/// Err(error) if error.kind() == ErrorKind::WouldBlock => continue,
/// _ => panic!("Error while reading events"),
/// }
/// };
///
/// for event in events {
/// // Handle event
/// }
/// ```
///
/// [`read_events_blocking`]: Self::read_events_blocking
/// [`read`]: libc::read
/// [`ErrorKind::UnexpectedEof`]: std::io::ErrorKind::UnexpectedEof
/// [`ErrorKind::InvalidInput`]: std::io::ErrorKind::InvalidInput
pub fn read_events<'a>(&mut self, buffer: &'a mut [u8])
-> io::Result<Events<'a>>
{
let num_bytes = read_into_buffer(**self.fd, buffer);
let num_bytes = match num_bytes {
0 => {
return Err(
io::Error::new(
io::ErrorKind::UnexpectedEof,
"`read` return `0`, signaling end-of-file"
)
);
}
-1 => {
let error = io::Error::last_os_error();
return Err(error);
},
_ if num_bytes < 0 => {
panic!("{} {} {} {} {} {}",
"Unexpected return value from `read`. Received a negative",
"value that was not `-1`. According to the `read` man page",
"this shouldn't happen, as either `-1` is returned on",
"error, `0` on end-of-file, or a positive value for the",
"number of bytes read. Returned value:",
num_bytes,
);
}
_ => {
// The value returned by `read` should be `isize`. Let's quickly
// verify this with the following assignment, so we can be sure
// our cast below is valid.
let num_bytes: isize = num_bytes;
// The type returned by `read` is `isize`, and we've ruled out
// all negative values with the match arms above. This means we
// can safely cast to `usize`.
debug_assert!(num_bytes > 0);
num_bytes as usize
}
};
Ok(Events::new(Arc::downgrade(&self.fd), buffer, num_bytes))
}
/// Deprecated: use `into_event_stream()` instead, which enforces a single `Stream` and predictable reads.
/// Using this method to create multiple `EventStream` instances from one `Inotify` is unsupported,
/// as they will contend over one event source and each produce unpredictable stream contents.
#[deprecated = "use `into_event_stream()` instead, which enforces a single Stream and predictable reads"]
#[cfg(feature = "stream")]
pub fn event_stream<T>(&mut self, buffer: T)
-> io::Result<EventStream<T>>
where
T: AsMut<[u8]> + AsRef<[u8]>,
{
EventStream::new(self.fd.clone(), buffer)
}
/// Create a stream which collects events. Consumes the `Inotify` instance.
///
/// Returns a `Stream` over all events that are available. This stream is an
/// infinite source of events.
///
/// An internal buffer which can hold the largest possible event is used.
#[cfg(feature = "stream")]
pub fn into_event_stream<T>(self, buffer: T)
-> io::Result<EventStream<T>>
where
T: AsMut<[u8]> + AsRef<[u8]>,
{
EventStream::new(self.fd, buffer)
}
/// Creates an `Inotify` instance using the file descriptor which was originally
/// initialized in `Inotify::init`. This is intended to be used to transform an
/// `EventStream` back into an `Inotify`. Do not attempt to clone `Inotify` with this.
#[cfg(feature = "stream")]
pub(crate) fn from_file_descriptor(fd: Arc<FdGuard>) -> Self
{
Inotify {
fd,
}
}
/// Closes the inotify instance
///
/// Closes the file descriptor referring to the inotify instance. The user
/// usually doesn't have to call this function, as the underlying inotify
/// instance is closed automatically, when [`Inotify`] is dropped.
///
/// # Errors
///
/// Directly returns the error from the call to [`close`], without adding any
/// error conditions of its own.
///
/// # Examples
///
/// ```
/// use inotify::Inotify;
///
/// let mut inotify = Inotify::init()
/// .expect("Failed to initialize an inotify instance");
///
/// inotify.close()
/// .expect("Failed to close inotify instance");
/// ```
///
/// [`close`]: libc::close
pub fn close(self) -> io::Result<()> {
// `self` will be dropped when this method returns. If this is the only
// owner of `fd`, the `Arc` will also be dropped. The `Drop`
// implementation for `FdGuard` will attempt to close the file descriptor
// again, unless this flag here is cleared.
self.fd.should_not_close();
match unsafe { ffi::close(**self.fd) } {
0 => Ok(()),
_ => Err(io::Error::last_os_error()),
}
}
}
impl AsRawFd for Inotify {
#[inline]
fn as_raw_fd(&self) -> RawFd {
self.fd.as_raw_fd()
}
}
impl FromRawFd for Inotify {
unsafe fn from_raw_fd(fd: RawFd) -> Self {
Inotify {
fd: Arc::new(FdGuard::from_raw_fd(fd))
}
}
}
impl IntoRawFd for Inotify {
#[inline]
fn into_raw_fd(self) -> RawFd {
self.fd.should_not_close();
self.fd.fd
}
}
impl AsFd for Inotify {
#[inline]
fn as_fd(&self) -> BorrowedFd<'_> {
self.fd.as_fd()
}
}
impl From<Inotify> for OwnedFd {
fn from(fd: Inotify) -> OwnedFd {
unsafe { OwnedFd::from_raw_fd(fd.into_raw_fd()) }
}
}
impl From<OwnedFd> for Inotify {
fn from(fd: OwnedFd) -> Inotify {
unsafe { Inotify::from_raw_fd(fd.into_raw_fd()) }
}
}