Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Nov 2002 15:43:50 +0000 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: file change notification |
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Chris Wright wrote: > * Colin Burnett (cburnett@fractal.candysporks.org) wrote: > > Is there notification to processes on file change? > > have you looked at dnotify? Documentation/dnotify.txt
dnotify is better than file notification if you're monitoring a lot of files in a directory which change rarely. On the other hand it's quite bad if you're monitoring a few files and other files in the directory are changing often.
Still, it works.
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