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Re: [PLUG] programming: how to be notified when a directory changes?
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you will want something called LibFAM.
KDE uses this to speedup directory updates in the filemanager. It interacts
directly with the kernel so you are notified when an inode changes.
Cheers
- -ian reinhart geiser
On Wednesday 08 May 2002 10:27 am, Kyle R . Burton wrote:
> I'm contemplating writing a peice of software that I will want to have
> monitor a directory tree. I want the software to be able to use something
> like select(2) or poll(2) so that it doesn't have to perform a busy-wait.
>
> At one point in my past I wrote software under that other operating system,
> which had functions that allowed you to register your program to be
> notified when these kinds of events happened. I just don't know how to do
> it under Linux.
>
> Anyone have any advice?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Kyle
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