C Inotify

Open-source C projects categorized as Inotify

Top 3 C Inotify Projects

  1. entr

    Run arbitrary commands when files change

    Project mention: Event Notify Test Runner – run arbitrary commands when files change | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-06
  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

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  3. kfmon

    Kute File Monitor, an inotify-based Launcher for Kobo devices

  4. libinotify

    Enable the linux file watch API on non-linux systems

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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  • Event Notify Test Runner – run arbitrary commands when files change

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Apr 2025
  • Run arbitrary commands when files change

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Sep 2024
  • MakeMake: Generate make files from C source code

    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Dec 2023
  • Entr – tool for watching files and running commands

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Nov 2023
  • Use entr when working on you rice for auto config refreshing

    1 project | /r/qtile | 7 Apr 2023
  • The Unix process API is unreliable and unsafe

    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Mar 2023
  • Reload sxhkd on file change (with entr)

    1 project | /r/bspwm | 24 Dec 2022
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Inotify projects in C? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 entr 4,979
2 kfmon 322
3 libinotify 4

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