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The ReadDirectoryChangesW function returns information describing the changes occurring within a directory.

BOOL ReadDirectoryChangesW(

    HANDLE hDirectory,

// handle to the directory to be watched

    LPVOID lpBuffer,

// pointer to the buffer to receive the read results

    DWORD nBufferLength,

// length of lpBuffer

    BOOL bWatchSubtree,

// flag for monitoring directory or directory tree

    DWORD dwNotifyFilter,

// filter conditions to watch for

    LPDWORD lpBytesReturned,

// number of bytes returned

    LPOVERLAPPED lpOverlapped,

// pointer to structure needed for overlapped I/O

    LPOVERLAPPED_COMPLETION_ROUTINE lpCompletionRoutine

// pointer to completion routine

   );

Parameters

hDirectory
Identifies the directory to be watched. This directory must be opened with the FILE_LIST_DIRECTORY access right.
lpBuffer
Specifies the address of the formatted buffer in which the read results are to be returned. The structure of this buffer is defined by the FILE_NOTIFY_INFORMATION structure. This buffer is filled either synchronously or asynchronously, depending on how the directory is opened and what value is given to the lpOverlapped parameter. For more information, see the Remarks section.
nBufferLength
Specifies the length of the buffer pointed to by the lpBuffer parameter.
bWatchSubtree
Specifies whether the ReadDirectoryChangesW function will monitor the directory or the directory tree. If TRUE is specified, the function monitors the directory tree rooted at the specified directory. If FALSE is specified, the function monitors only the directory specified by the hDirectory parameter.
dwNotifyFilter
Specifies filter criteria the function checks to determine if the wait operation has completed. This parameter can be one or more of the following values:

Value

Meaning

FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_FILE_NAME

Any filename change in the watched directory or subtree causes a change notification wait operation to return. Changes include renaming, creating, or deleting a file.

FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_DIR_NAME

Any directory-name change in the watched directory or subtree causes a change notification wait operation to return. Changes include creating or deleting a directory.

FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_ATTRIBUTES

Any attribute change in the watched directory or subtree causes a change notification wait operation to return.

FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_SIZE

Any file-size change in the watched directory or subtree causes a change notification wait operation to return. The operating system detects a change in file size only when the file is written to the disk. For operating systems that use extensive caching, detection occurs only when the cache is sufficiently flushed.

FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_LAST_WRITE

Any change to the last write-time of files in the watched directory or subtree causes a change notification wait operation to return. The operating system detects a change to the last write-time only when the file is written to the disk. For operating systems that use extensive caching, detection occurs only when the cache is sufficiently flushed.

FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_LAST_ACCESS

Any change to the last access time of files in the watched directory or subtree causes a change notification wait operation to return.

FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_CREATION

Any change to the creation time of files in the watched directory or subtree causes a change notification wait operation to return.

FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_SECURITY

Any security-descriptor change in the watched directory or subtree causes a change notification wait operation to return.

lpBytesReturned
For synchronous calls, this parameter specifies the number of bytes transferred into the lpBuffer parameter. For asynchronous calls, this parameter is undefined. You must use an asynchronous notification technique to retrieve the number of bytes transferred.
lpOverlapped
Points to an OVERLAPPED structure that supplies data to be used during asynchronous operation. Otherwise, this value is NULL. The Offset and OffsetHigh members of this structure are not used.
lpCompletionRoutine
Points to a completion routine to be called when the operation has been completed and the calling thread is in an alertable wait state. For more information about this completion routine, see FileIOCompletionRoutine.

Return Value

If the function succeeds, the return value is nonzero. For synchronous calls, this means that the operation succeeded. For asynchronous calls, this indicates that the operation was successfully queued.

If the function fails, the return value is zero. To get extended error information, call GetLastError.

Remarks

To obtain a handle to a directory, use the CreateFile function with FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS as follows:

hDir = CreateFile (

          DirName,                       // pointer to the file name

          FILE_LIST_DIRECTORY,           // access (read-write) mode

          FILE_SHARE_READ|FILE_SHARE_DELETE,  // share mode

          NULL,                               // security descriptor

          OPEN_EXISTING,                      // how to create

          FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS,         // file attributes

          NULL                           // file with attributes to copy

        );

 

A call to ReadDirectoryChangesW can be completed synchronously or asynchronously. To specify asynchronous completion, open the directory with CreateFile as shown above, but additionally specify the FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED attribute in the dwFlagsAndAttributes parameter. Then specify an OVERLAPPED structure when you call ReadDirectoryChangesW.

Upon successful synchronous completion, the lpBuffer parameter is a formatted buffer and the number of bytes written to the buffer is available in lpBytesReturned. If the number of bytes transferred is zero, the buffer was too small to provide detailed information on all the changes that occurred in the directory or subtree. In this case, you should compute the changes by enumerating the directory or subtree.

For asynchronous completion, you can receive notification in one of three ways:

See Also

CreateFile, CreateIoCompletionPort, FILE_NOTIFY_INFORMATION, FileIOCompletionRoutine, GetOverlappedResult, GetQueuedCompletionStatus, OVERLAPPED 


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