;;; filenotify.el --- watch files for changes on disk ;; Copyright (C) 2013-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Michael Albinus ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. ;; GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or ;; (at your option) any later version. ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with GNU Emacs. If not, see . ;;; Commentary ;; This package is an abstraction layer from the different low-level ;; file notification packages `gfilenotify', `inotify' and ;; `w32notify'. ;;; Code: (defconst file-notify--library (cond ((featurep 'gfilenotify) 'gfilenotify) ((featurep 'inotify) 'inotify) ((featurep 'w32notify) 'w32notify)) "Non-nil when Emacs has been compiled with file notification support. The value is the name of the low-level file notification package to be used for local file systems. Remote file notifications could use another implementation.") (defvar file-notify-descriptors (make-hash-table :test 'equal) "Hash table for registered file notification descriptors. A key in this hash table is the descriptor as returned from `gfilenotify', `inotify', `w32notify' or a file name handler. The value in the hash table is a list \(DIR (FILE . CALLBACK) (FILE . CALLBACK) ...) Several values for a given DIR happen only for `inotify', when different files from the same directory are watched.") ;; This function is used by `gfilenotify', `inotify' and `w32notify' events. ;;;###autoload (defun file-notify-handle-event (event) "Handle file system monitoring event. If EVENT is a filewatch event, call its callback. It has the format \(file-notify (DESCRIPTOR ACTIONS FILE [FILE1-OR-COOKIE]) CALLBACK) Otherwise, signal a `file-notify-error'." (interactive "e") (if (and (eq (car event) 'file-notify) (>= (length event) 3)) (funcall (nth 2 event) (nth 1 event)) (signal 'file-notify-error (cons "Not a valid file-notify event" event)))) ;; Needed for `inotify' and `w32notify'. In the latter case, COOKIE is nil. (defvar file-notify--pending-event nil "A pending file notification events for a future `renamed' action. It is a form ((DESCRIPTOR ACTION FILE [FILE1-OR-COOKIE]) CALLBACK).") (defun file-notify--event-file-name (event) "Return file name of file notification event, or nil." (expand-file-name (or (and (stringp (nth 2 event)) (nth 2 event)) "") (car (gethash (car event) file-notify-descriptors)))) ;; Only `gfilenotify' could return two file names. (defun file-notify--event-file1-name (event) "Return second file name of file notification event, or nil. This is available in case a file has been moved." (and (stringp (nth 3 event)) (expand-file-name (nth 3 event) (car (gethash (car event) file-notify-descriptors))))) ;; Cookies are offered by `inotify' only. (defun file-notify--event-cookie (event) "Return cookie of file notification event, or nil. This is available in case a file has been moved." (nth 3 event)) ;; `inotify' returns the same descriptor when the file (directory) ;; uses the same inode. We want to distinguish, and apply a virtual ;; descriptor which make the difference. (defun file-notify--descriptor (descriptor) "Return the descriptor to be used in `file-notify-*-watch'. For `gfilenotify' and `w32notify' it is the same descriptor as used in the low-level file notification package." (if (and (natnump descriptor) (eq file-notify--library 'inotify)) (cons descriptor (car (cadr (gethash descriptor file-notify-descriptors)))) descriptor)) ;; The callback function used to map between specific flags of the ;; respective file notifications, and the ones we return. (defun file-notify-callback (event) "Handle an EVENT returned from file notification. EVENT is the cadr of the event in `file-notify-handle-event' \(DESCRIPTOR ACTIONS FILE [FILE1-OR-COOKIE])." (let* ((desc (car event)) (registered (gethash desc file-notify-descriptors)) (actions (nth 1 event)) (file (file-notify--event-file-name event)) file1 callback pending-event) ;; Make actions a list. (unless (consp actions) (setq actions (cons actions nil))) ;; Loop over registered entries. In fact, more than one entry ;; happens only for `inotify'. (dolist (entry (cdr registered)) ;; Check, that event is meant for us. (unless (setq callback (cdr entry)) (setq actions nil)) ;; Loop over actions. In fact, more than one action happens only ;; for `inotify'. (dolist (action actions) ;; Send pending event, if it doesn't match. (when (and file-notify--pending-event ;; The cookie doesn't match. (not (eq (file-notify--event-cookie (car file-notify--pending-event)) (file-notify--event-cookie event))) (or ;; inotify. (and (eq (nth 1 (car file-notify--pending-event)) 'moved-from) (not (eq action 'moved-to))) ;; w32notify. (and (eq (nth 1 (car file-notify--pending-event)) 'renamed-from) (not (eq action 'renamed-to))))) (setq pending-event file-notify--pending-event file-notify--pending-event nil) (setcar (cdar pending-event) 'deleted)) ;; Map action. We ignore all events which cannot be mapped. (setq action (cond ;; gfilenotify. ((memq action '(attribute-changed changed created deleted)) action) ((eq action 'moved) (setq file1 (file-notify--event-file1-name event)) 'renamed) ;; inotify, w32notify. ((eq action 'attrib) 'attribute-changed) ((memq action '(create added)) 'created) ((memq action '(modify modified)) 'changed) ((memq action '(delete 'delete-self move-self removed)) 'deleted) ;; Make the event pending. ((memq action '(moved-from renamed-from)) (setq file-notify--pending-event `((,desc ,action ,file ,(file-notify--event-cookie event)) ,callback)) nil) ;; Look for pending event. ((memq action '(moved-to renamed-to)) (if (null file-notify--pending-event) 'created (setq file1 file file (file-notify--event-file-name (car file-notify--pending-event))) ;; If the source is handled by another watch, we ;; must fire the rename event there as well. (when (not (equal (file-notify--descriptor desc) (file-notify--descriptor (caar file-notify--pending-event)))) (setq pending-event `((,(caar file-notify--pending-event) renamed ,file ,file1) ,(cadr file-notify--pending-event)))) (setq file-notify--pending-event nil) 'renamed)))) ;; Apply pending callback. (when pending-event (setcar (car pending-event) (file-notify--descriptor (caar pending-event))) (funcall (cadr pending-event) (car pending-event)) (setq pending-event nil)) ;; Apply callback. (when (and action (or ;; If there is no relative file name for that watch, ;; we watch the whole directory. (null (nth 0 entry)) ;; File matches. (string-equal (nth 0 entry) (file-name-nondirectory file)) ;; File1 matches. (and (stringp file1) (string-equal (nth 0 entry) (file-name-nondirectory file1))))) (if file1 (funcall callback `(,(file-notify--descriptor desc) ,action ,file ,file1)) (funcall callback `(,(file-notify--descriptor desc) ,action ,file)))))))) ;; `gfilenotify' and `w32notify' return a unique descriptor for every ;; `file-notify-add-watch', while `inotify' returns a unique ;; descriptor per inode only. (defun file-notify-add-watch (file flags callback) "Add a watch for filesystem events pertaining to FILE. This arranges for filesystem events pertaining to FILE to be reported to Emacs. Use `file-notify-rm-watch' to cancel the watch. The returned value is a descriptor for the added watch. If the file cannot be watched for some reason, this function signals a `file-notify-error' error. FLAGS is a list of conditions to set what will be watched for. It can include the following symbols: `change' -- watch for file changes `attribute-change' -- watch for file attributes changes, like permissions or modification time If FILE is a directory, `change' watches for file creation or deletion in that directory. This does not work recursively. When any event happens, Emacs will call the CALLBACK function passing it a single argument EVENT, which is of the form (DESCRIPTOR ACTION FILE [FILE1]) DESCRIPTOR is the same object as the one returned by this function. ACTION is the description of the event. It could be any one of the following: `created' -- FILE was created `deleted' -- FILE was deleted `changed' -- FILE has changed `renamed' -- FILE has been renamed to FILE1 `attribute-changed' -- a FILE attribute was changed FILE is the name of the file whose event is being reported." ;; Check arguments. (unless (stringp file) (signal 'wrong-type-argument (list file))) (setq file (expand-file-name file)) (unless (and (consp flags) (null (delq 'change (delq 'attribute-change (copy-tree flags))))) (signal 'wrong-type-argument (list flags))) (unless (functionp callback) (signal 'wrong-type-argument (list callback))) (let* ((handler (find-file-name-handler file 'file-notify-add-watch)) (dir (directory-file-name (if (file-directory-p file) file (file-name-directory file)))) desc func l-flags registered) (if handler ;; A file name handler could exist even if there is no local ;; file notification support. (setq desc (funcall handler 'file-notify-add-watch dir flags callback)) ;; Check, whether Emacs has been compiled with file ;; notification support. (unless file-notify--library (signal 'file-notify-error '("No file notification package available"))) ;; Determine low-level function to be called. (setq func (cond ((eq file-notify--library 'gfilenotify) 'gfile-add-watch) ((eq file-notify--library 'inotify) 'inotify-add-watch) ((eq file-notify--library 'w32notify) 'w32notify-add-watch))) ;; Determine respective flags. (if (eq file-notify--library 'gfilenotify) (setq l-flags '(watch-mounts send-moved)) (when (memq 'change flags) (setq l-flags (cond ((eq file-notify--library 'inotify) '(create modify move delete)) ((eq file-notify--library 'w32notify) '(file-name directory-name size last-write-time))))) (when (memq 'attribute-change flags) (add-to-list 'l-flags (cond ((eq file-notify--library 'inotify) 'attrib) ((eq file-notify--library 'w32notify) 'attributes))))) ;; Call low-level function. (setq desc (funcall func dir l-flags 'file-notify-callback))) ;; Modify `file-notify-descriptors'. (setq registered (gethash desc file-notify-descriptors)) (puthash desc `(,dir (,(unless (file-directory-p file) (file-name-nondirectory file)) . ,callback) . ,(cdr registered)) file-notify-descriptors) ;; Return descriptor. (file-notify--descriptor desc))) (defun file-notify-rm-watch (descriptor) "Remove an existing watch specified by its DESCRIPTOR. DESCRIPTOR should be an object returned by `file-notify-add-watch'." (let* ((desc (if (consp descriptor) (car descriptor) descriptor)) (file (if (consp descriptor) (cdr descriptor))) (dir (car (gethash desc file-notify-descriptors))) handler registered) (when (stringp dir) (setq handler (find-file-name-handler dir 'file-notify-rm-watch)) ;; Modify `file-notify-descriptors'. (if (not file) (remhash desc file-notify-descriptors) (setq registered (gethash desc file-notify-descriptors)) (setcdr registered (delete (assoc file (cdr registered)) (cdr registered))) (if (null (cdr registered)) (remhash desc file-notify-descriptors) (puthash desc registered file-notify-descriptors))) ;; Call low-level function. (when (null (cdr registered)) (if handler ;; A file name handler could exist even if there is no local ;; file notification support. (funcall handler 'file-notify-rm-watch desc) (funcall (cond ((eq file-notify--library 'gfilenotify) 'gfile-rm-watch) ((eq file-notify--library 'inotify) 'inotify-rm-watch) ((eq file-notify--library 'w32notify) 'w32notify-rm-watch)) desc)))))) ;; The end: (provide 'filenotify) ;;; filenotify.el ends here