Re^2: How to do a blocking readdir or similar

POSIX doesn't provide such a hook, so most unix-like systems also don't have such a hook

Actually, Linux provides such a hook. Check out SGI::FAM for using the file alteration monitor based on dnotify or Linux::Inotify2 for newer kernels.

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Re^3: How to do a blocking readdir or similar by Kanji (Parson) on Dec 19, 2005 at 06:25 UTC
OS X (which the OP was using) shares more with FreeBSD than Linux, so IO::KQueue is probably a more appropriate choice. From the README... This module is a low level interface to the FreeBSD and Mac OS X kqueue() system call. This is basically equivalent to epoll() on Linux - a high performance poll() replacement. --k.	[reply]
Re^3: How to do a blocking readdir or similar by james2vegas (Chaplain) on Aug 24, 2009 at 07:38 UTC
SGI::FAM seems like a more compatible and less linux-only solution, and fam should run on Mac Os X (and BSDs of all stripes really, as it can be compiled to run with kqueue Update: Maybe that is not such a good recommendation, SGI::FAM depends on deprecated File::PathConvert, has an unregistered dependency on Test::Helper and doesn't find my libfam without help. After that, it does seem to work, though, quite well, though only on famd started as a daemon, not running through inetd.	[reply]