Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Jan 2003 01:59:41 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Detecting changes in a directory tree |
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On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 01:58:36PM -0500, Jeroen van Disseldorp wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Jeroen,
> For an application I'm writing I need to know if files in a certain > directory tree were modified and/or deleted by another process. I > assume that that tree is mounted on the machine that my app is running > on. The device it has mounted on can be a local HD, but it can also be > hosted remotely and mounted over nfs. > > I know of FAM, but this is documented to only watch a directory 1 level > deep, and I need the whole tree to be monitored. Does anyone know a > solution for this? Does the kernel provide facilities for this? >...
with a kernel >= 2.4.19 dnotify [1] might do what you want.
> Regards, > Jeroen van Disseldorp mailto:jdizzl@xs4all.nl
cu Adrian
[1] http://www.student.lu.se/~nbi98oli/dnotify.html
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