Hello! I'm proposing a little program, let's call it "wait4", maybe to one day become part of the coreutils.
Basically that thing should monitor files listed as arguments and terminate successfully as soon as one is changed. For example: while wait4 program.c *.h; do make program && ./program; done So I could edit the code in my favorite editor, and as soon as I save my changes, the thing is recompiled. I've written a first version of this for myself, simply polling for the filenames every second and comparing the mtime. Given some time, I'd like to do some additions listed below. I believe this tool to be useful enough to be made available to the public, but too small to be a standalone package. So I thought perhaps it should be part of coreutils. What do you think? BTW: Do you know anything like this around? I found nothing, but because this could be phrased in so many different ways and could always be part of a larger package, that accounts for nothing. Additions I have in mind: - handling of standard options (--help, --version) - configurable polling interval - configurable handling of files being / becoming nonexistent - successful termination on input on stdin (manual trigger) - selection of which stat fields are being watched - integration of FAM API where available The last could be a problem for the order in which the utilities are built from source, as building FAM might require the existence of the coreutils, so wait4 would have to be compiled twice. Is this reason enough not to make it a part of coreutils? See also http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/ I would appreciate your opinions. Thanx, Martin
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