class INotify::Event

which are passed to that watcher’s callback.
Each {Watcher} can fire many events,
An event caused by a change on the filesystem.

def self.consume(data, notifier)

Returns:
  • (Event, nil) - The event, or `nil` if the string is empty

Parameters:
  • notifier (Notifier) -- The {Notifier} that fired the event
  • data (String) -- The string to be modified

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def self.consume(data, notifier)
  return nil if data.empty?
  ev = new(data, notifier)
  data.replace data[ev.size..-1]
  ev
end

def absolute_name

Returns:
  • (String) - 
def absolute_name
  return watcher.path if name.empty?
  return File.join(watcher.path, name)
end

def callback!

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def callback!
  watcher.callback!(self)
end

def flags

Returns:
  • (Array) - 
def flags
  @flags ||= Native::Flags.from_mask(@native[:mask])
end

def initialize(data, notifier)

Parameters:
  • notifier (Notifier) -- The {Notifier} that fired the event
  • data (String) -- The data string

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def initialize(data, notifier)
  ptr = FFI::MemoryPointer.from_string(data)
  @native = Native::Event.new(ptr)
  @related = []
  @cookie = @native[:cookie]
  @name = data[@native.size, @native[:len]].gsub(/\0+$/, '')
  @notifier = notifier
  @watcher_id = @native[:wd]
  raise Exception.new("inotify event queue has overflowed.") if @native[:mask] & Native::Flags::IN_Q_OVERFLOW != 0
end

def size

Returns:
  • (Fixnum) - 
def size
  @native.size + @native[:len]
end

def watcher

Returns:
  • (Watcher) - 
def watcher
  @watcher ||= @notifier.watchers[@watcher_id]
end