Return Values

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)