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+.\" Copyright (C) 2005 Robert Love
+.\"
+.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+.\"
+.\" 2005-07-19 Robert Love <rlove@rlove.org> - initial version
+.\" 2006-02-07 mtk, minor changes
+.\"
+.TH inotify_rm_watch 2 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.SH NAME
+inotify_rm_watch \- remove an existing watch from an inotify instance
+.SH LIBRARY
+Standard C library
+.RI ( libc ", " \-lc )
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.nf
+.B #include <sys/inotify.h>
+.PP
+.BI "int inotify_rm_watch(int " fd ", int " wd );
+.\" Before glibc 2.10, the second argument was types as uint32_t.
+.\" https://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7040
+.fi
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.BR inotify_rm_watch ()
+removes the watch associated with the watch descriptor
+.I wd
+from the inotify instance associated with the file descriptor
+.IR fd .
+.PP
+Removing a watch causes an
+.B IN_IGNORED
+event to be generated for this watch descriptor.
+(See
+.BR inotify (7).)
+.SH RETURN VALUE
+On success,
+.BR inotify_rm_watch ()
+returns zero.
+On error, \-1 is returned and
+.I errno
+is set to indicate the error.
+.SH ERRORS
+.TP
+.B EBADF
+.I fd
+is not a valid file descriptor.
+.TP
+.B EINVAL
+The watch descriptor
+.I wd
+is not valid; or
+.I fd
+is not an inotify file descriptor.
+.SH STANDARDS
+Linux.
+.SH HISTORY
+Linux 2.6.13.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR inotify_add_watch (2),
+.BR inotify_init (2),
+.BR inotify (7)