Module format 

Index file format constants and header parsing.

All integers little-endian. All offsets absolute from file start. Sections aligned to 8-byte boundaries.

Modules

flags

Bit-flag constants stored in the Header::flags field.

Structs

Beacon

A heartbeat file written by the ixd daemon so other processes can detect a running watcher and query its status.

Header

Parsed contents of the fixed 256-byte index header.

Enums

FileStatus

Whether a file tracked by the index is current, out-of-date, or deleted.

Constants

FILE_ENTRY_SIZE

On-disk size of one file-table entry in the index.

HEADER_SIZE

Size of the fixed header at the start of every index file (256 bytes).

MAGIC

Magic bytes identifying an ix index file (b"IX01").

TRIGRAM_ENTRY_SIZE

On-disk size of one trigram-table entry (u32 key + 16-byte payload).

VERSION_MAJOR

Major version of the on-disk format this library writes.

VERSION_MINOR

Minimum minor version required to read an index file.

Functions

is_binary

Centralized binary file detection.