# inotify_read

(PECL inotify >= 0.1.2)

inotify_read — Read events from an inotify instance

### 说明

inotify_read ( resource `$inotify_instance` ) : array

Read inotify events from an inotify instance.

### 参数

`inotify_instance`

  inotify_init()返回的资源

### 返回值

An array of inotify events or `FALSE` if no events was pending and `inotify_instance` is non-blocking. Each event is an array with the following keys:

- wd is a watch descriptor returned by inotify_add_watch()
- mask is a bit mask of events
- cookie is a unique id to connect related events (e.g. `IN_MOVE_FROM` and `IN_MOVE_TO`)
- name is the name of a file (e.g. if a file was modified in a watched directory)

### 参见

- inotify_init() - Initialize an inotify instance
- stream_select() - Runs the equivalent of the select() system call on the given arrays of streams with a timeout specified by tv_sec and tv_usec
- stream_set_blocking() - 为资源流设置阻塞或者阻塞模式
- inotify_queue_len() - Return a number upper than zero if there are pending events