Re: file change notification

Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 2 Nov 2002 15:43:50 +0000


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.

-- Jamie
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