> On Dec 21, 2019, at 13:43, Jens Alfke wrote:
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>> On Dec 21, 2019, at 10:18 AM, Gabriel Zachmann via Cocoa-dev
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>> Right. I was hoping there is an easy way to do this.
>> Something like a recursive check sum over the whole directory tree that the
>> OS might keep.
>> I
> On Dec 21, 2019, at 10:18 AM, Gabriel Zachmann via Cocoa-dev
> wrote:
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> Right. I was hoping there is an easy way to do this.
> Something like a recursive check sum over the whole directory tree that the
> OS might keep.
> I don't want to do a complete tree traversal every time the app
You want the FSEvents API. I’m pretty sure you can specify the start time for
the events, and subdirectories are included. My app specifically discards
events before I start monitoring.
Jim Crate
> On Dec 21, 2019, at 11:09, Gabriel Zachmann via Cocoa-dev
> wrote:
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> Is there a quick and
On 22 Dec 2019, at 1:18, Gabriel Zachmann wrote:
Right. I was hoping there is an easy way to do this.
There is the File System Events API:
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/FSEvents_ProgGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html
> Are you looking to detect changes that happen in between launches of your
> app? If so you’d have to save state and compare that saved state to the dir
> contents each time the app is launched.
Right. I was hoping there is an easy way to do this.
Something like a recursive check sum over
> On Dec 21, 2019, at 12:56, Gabriel Zachmann wrote:
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> Thanks a lot!
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> Does it really watch subfolders, too?
The docs can answer this better I.
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> Also, it seems to me like it works only while the program is running.
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> I am mostly interested in changes that happen "behind the
Thanks a lot!
Does it really watch subfolders, too?
Also, it seems to me like it works only while the program is running.
I am mostly interested in changes that happen "behind the program's back",
i.e., while it is *not* running.
Does your code really handle that?
Best regards, Gabriel
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I’ve used dispatch stuff. I found this with a quick google… it should be close
to what one would need to monitor a folder.
int fildes = open("/path/to/directory", O_RDONLY);
dispatch_queue_t queue =
dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0);
dispatch_source_t source =
Is there a quick and easy way to check whether or not a directory tree has
changed?
I am only interested in file additions or deletions, somewhere beneath a
specific root directory,
e.g., ~/Data/some_directory.
However, I am interested in such changes between different invocations of my
