- %add-watch! FD PATH FLAGSprocedure
Adds a watch for PATH which must be an absolute or relative path pointing to a file or directory. FLAGS is a list of at least one symbol describing the events one is interested in. Returns a watch descriptor associated with the watch.
The event flag list consists of at least one of the following event type symbols:
- access
- attrib
- close-write
- close-nowrite
- create
- delete
- delete-self
- modify
- move-self
- moved-from
- moved-to
- open
Further convenience flags:
- move (equivalent to (moved-from moved-to))
- close (equivalent to (close-write close-nowrite))
- all-events (catches all event types)
Further options:
- dont-follow
- excl-unlink
- mask-add
- oneshot
- onlydir