// Copyright 2010 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. // +build linux package fsnotify import ( "errors" "fmt" "io" "os" "path/filepath" "strings" "sync" "unsafe" "golang.org/x/sys/unix" ) // Watcher watches a set of files, delivering events to a channel. type Watcher struct { Events chan Event Errors chan error mu sync.Mutex // Map access fd int poller *fdPoller watches map[string]*watch // Map of inotify watches (key: path) paths map[int]string // Map of watched paths (key: watch descriptor) done chan struct{} // Channel for sending a "quit message" to the reader goroutine doneResp chan struct{} // Channel to respond to Close } // NewWatcher establishes a new watcher with the underlying OS and begins waiting for events. func NewWatcher() (*Watcher, error) { // Create inotify fd fd, errno := unix.InotifyInit1(unix.IN_CLOEXEC) if fd == -1 { return nil, errno } // Create epoll poller, err := newFdPoller(fd) if err != nil { unix.Close(fd) return nil, err } w := &Watcher{ fd: fd, poller: poller, watches: make(map[string]*watch), paths: make(map[int]string), Events: make(chan Event), Errors: make(chan error), done: make(chan struct{}), doneResp: make(chan struct{}), } go w.readEvents() return w, nil } func (w *Watcher) isClosed() bool { select { case <-w.done: return true default: return false } } // Close removes all watches and closes the events channel. func (w *Watcher) Close() error { if w.isClosed() { return nil } // Send 'close' signal to goroutine, and set the Watcher to closed. close(w.done) // Wake up goroutine w.poller.wake() // Wait for goroutine to close <-w.doneResp return nil } // Add starts watching the named file or directory (non-recursively). func (w *Watcher) Add(name string) error { name = filepath.Clean(name) if w.isClosed() { return errors.New("inotify instance already closed") } const agnosticEvents = unix.IN_MOVED_TO | unix.IN_MOVED_FROM | unix.IN_CREATE | unix.IN_ATTRIB | unix.IN_MODIFY | unix.IN_MOVE_SELF | unix.IN_DELETE | unix.IN_DELETE_SELF var flags uint32 = agnosticEvents w.mu.Lock() defer w.mu.Unlock() watchEntry := w.watches[name] if watchEntry != nil { flags |= watchEntry.flags | unix.IN_MASK_ADD } wd, errno := unix.InotifyAddWatch(w.fd, name, flags) if wd == -1 { return errno } if watchEntry == nil { w.watches[name] = &watch{wd: uint32(wd), flags: flags} w.paths[wd] = name } else { watchEntry.wd = uint32(wd) watchEntry.flags = flags } return nil } // Remove stops watching the named file or directory (non-recursively). func (w *Watcher) Remove(name string) error { name = filepath.Clean(name) // Fetch the watch. w.mu.Lock() defer w.mu.Unlock() watch, ok := w.watches[name] // Remove it from inotify. if !ok { return fmt.Errorf("can't remove non-existent inotify watch for: %s", name) } // We successfully removed the watch if InotifyRmWatch doesn't return an // error, we need to clean up our internal state to ensure it matches // inotify's kernel state. delete(w.paths, int(watch.wd)) delete(w.watches, name) // inotify_rm_watch will return EINVAL if the file has been deleted; // the inotify will already have been removed. // watches and pathes are deleted in ignoreLinux() implicitly and asynchronously // by calling inotify_rm_watch() below. e.g. readEvents() goroutine receives IN_IGNORE // so that EINVAL means that the wd is being rm_watch()ed or its file removed // by another thread and we have not received IN_IGNORE event. success, errno := unix.InotifyRmWatch(w.fd, watch.wd) if success == -1 { // TODO: Perhaps it's not helpful to return an error here in every case. // the only two possible errors are: // EBADF, which happens when w.fd is not a valid file descriptor of any kind. // EINVAL, which is when fd is not an inotify descriptor or wd is not a valid watch descriptor. // Watch descriptors are invalidated when they are removed explicitly or implicitly; // explicitly by inotify_rm_watch, implicitly when the file they are watching is deleted. return errno } return nil } type watch struct { wd uint32 // Watch descriptor (as returned by the inotify_add_watch() syscall) flags uint32 // inotify flags of this watch (see inotify(7) for the list of valid flags) } // readEvents reads from the inotify file descriptor, converts the // received events into Event objects and sends them via the Events channel func (w *Watcher) readEvents() { var ( buf [unix.SizeofInotifyEvent * 4096]byte // Buffer for a maximum of 4096 raw events n int // Number of bytes read with read() errno error // Syscall errno ok bool // For poller.wait ) defer close(w.doneResp) defer close(w.Errors) defer close(w.Events) defer unix.Close(w.fd) defer w.poller.close() for { // See if we have been closed. if w.isClosed() { return } ok, errno = w.poller.wait() if errno != nil { select { case w.Errors <- errno: case <-w.done: return } continue } if !ok { continue } n, errno = unix.Read(w.fd, buf[:]) // If a signal interrupted execution, see if we've been asked to close, and try again. // http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/signal.7.html : // "Before Linux 3.8, reads from an inotify(7) file descriptor were not restartable" if errno == unix.EINTR { continue } // unix.Read might have been woken up by Close. If so, we're done. if w.isClosed() { return } if n < unix.SizeofInotifyEvent { var err error if n == 0 { // If EOF is received. This should really never happen. err = io.EOF } else if n < 0 { // If an error occurred while reading. err = errno } else { // Read was too short. err = errors.New("notify: short read in readEvents()") } select { case w.Errors <- err: case <-w.done: return } continue } var offset uint32 // We don't know how many events we just read into the buffer // While the offset points to at least one whole event... for offset <= uint32(n-unix.SizeofInotifyEvent) { // Point "raw" to the event in the buffer raw := (*unix.InotifyEvent)(unsafe.Pointer(&buf[offset])) mask := uint32(raw.Mask) nameLen := uint32(raw.Len) if mask&unix.IN_Q_OVERFLOW != 0 { select { case w.Errors <- ErrEventOverflow: case <-w.done: return } } // If the event happened to the watched directory or the watched file, the kernel // doesn't append the filename to the event, but we would like to always fill the // the "Name" field with a valid filename. We retrieve the path of the watch from // the "paths" map. w.mu.Lock() name, ok := w.paths[int(raw.Wd)] // IN_DELETE_SELF occurs when the file/directory being watched is removed. // This is a sign to clean up the maps, otherwise we are no longer in sync // with the inotify kernel state which has already deleted the watch // automatically. if ok && mask&unix.IN_DELETE_SELF == unix.IN_DELETE_SELF { delete(w.paths, int(raw.Wd)) delete(w.watches, name) } w.mu.Unlock() if nameLen > 0 { // Point "bytes" at the first byte of the filename bytes := (*[unix.PathMax]byte)(unsafe.Pointer(&buf[offset+unix.SizeofInotifyEvent])) // The filename is padded with NULL bytes. TrimRight() gets rid of those. name += "/" + strings.TrimRight(string(bytes[0:nameLen]), "\000") } event := newEvent(name, mask) // Send the events that are not ignored on the events channel if !event.ignoreLinux(mask) { select { case w.Events <- event: case <-w.done: return } } // Move to the next event in the buffer offset += unix.SizeofInotifyEvent + nameLen } } } // Certain types of events can be "ignored" and not sent over the Events // channel. Such as events marked ignore by the kernel, or MODIFY events // against files that do not exist. func (e *Event) ignoreLinux(mask uint32) bool { // Ignore anything the inotify API says to ignore if mask&unix.IN_IGNORED == unix.IN_IGNORED { return true } // If the event is not a DELETE or RENAME, the file must exist. // Otherwise the event is ignored. // *Note*: this was put in place because it was seen that a MODIFY // event was sent after the DELETE. This ignores that MODIFY and // assumes a DELETE will come or has come if the file doesn't exist. if !(e.Op&Remove == Remove || e.Op&Rename == Rename) { _, statErr := os.Lstat(e.Name) return os.IsNotExist(statErr) } return false } // newEvent returns an platform-independent Event based on an inotify mask. func newEvent(name string, mask uint32) Event { e := Event{Name: name} if mask&unix.IN_CREATE == unix.IN_CREATE || mask&unix.IN_MOVED_TO == unix.IN_MOVED_TO { e.Op |= Create } if mask&unix.IN_DELETE_SELF == unix.IN_DELETE_SELF || mask&unix.IN_DELETE == unix.IN_DELETE { e.Op |= Remove } if mask&unix.IN_MODIFY == unix.IN_MODIFY { e.Op |= Write } if mask&unix.IN_MOVE_SELF == unix.IN_MOVE_SELF || mask&unix.IN_MOVED_FROM == unix.IN_MOVED_FROM { e.Op |= Rename } if mask&unix.IN_ATTRIB == unix.IN_ATTRIB { e.Op |= Chmod } return e }