Re^2: Monitoring filesystem for file/folder changes

First, sorry, forgot to login for the reply above. And yea, found that, and I suppose Im gonna use that for the Windows version of my app. One question about this though... Is it heavy use to monitor.. say D:/ which contains 2000+ files and like 500 folders? Guess how that module actually "monitors". If it goes recursivly, I can almost do that myself, but then Im back to square 1.

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Re^3: Monitoring filesystem for file/folder changes by jpeg (Chaplain) on Jun 05, 2005 at 01:06 UTC
I've used it, and it's certainly not 'heavy'. I guess (haven't looked at the code) that it uses some Win32 APIs, so I doubt it does anything as crude as building a recursive tree. I don't know if it's built the same way, but check out Sysinternal's Filemon utility for a description of a smart way to build something like this. Win32::ChangeNotify has done the heavy interface work for you already, why not use it? -- jpg	[reply]
Re^4: Monitoring filesystem for file/folder changes by Ace128 (Hermit) on Jun 05, 2005 at 14:24 UTC
Yeah, think Im gonna use this for Windows. Else I was hoping for something multi-OS solution, but I guess that doesnt really exist, so it has to be seperate things "imported" depending on OS. Speaking of this, got some neat trick to require/use perl modules only if they exist or so...? Like: use if exists mainmodule::submodule;	[reply]