Hello, This could be more of a Linux/OS question, but thought I would try it here anyway. I have a script which gets a directory handle through "opendir()", and then enters a loop. In each iteration of the loop, it should print all the files which where created in the directory since the last iteration. Here is the code: 


  opendir(my $dirh, "/somewhere") or die;
  while(1)
  {
     while(my $file = readdir($dirh))
     {
        print("$file\n");
     }
     sleep(1);
  }

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The first iteration works exactly as expected - it prints all the files currently present in the directory. However, the subsequent iterations are not working quite as I expect them to. I touched some files manually in the directory after the first iteration, and was expecting them to show up in the script output. However, that didn't happen: the script didn't get anything in the call to readdir at all. Technically I can work around this problem by opening and closing the directory in each iteration - and then do my own bookkeeping to keep track of which files are new. However, having to read the complete directory in each iteration, even when I knew a lot of those files were not new since the last iteration, was something I didn't like too well. Any help/suggestion is greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Thejasvi V

In reply to The "readdir()" fails to detect files created after the call to "opendir()" by thejasviv

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