in reply to Watching a driectory for change

This is an interesting problem, and some people have already mentioned Win32::ChangeModify. I am wondering if there is a module for *nix that does the same thing, or is there a way to query the operating system to have the same effect?

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Re: Re: Watching a driectory for change
by paulbort (Hermit) on Jun 13, 2002 at 16:04 UTC
    I just noticed last night that there's a daemon in RH 7.3 that does file change notifications called sgi_fam. I haven't looked in to it, just saw it when I was cleaning up an install.

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Re: Re: Watching a driectory for change
by kappa (Chaplain) on Jun 14, 2002 at 06:45 UTC
    There's a kqueue facility in FreeBSD which could be used for such a task. Unfortunately, I see only a python interface wrapper for it :(
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