There is an api in glib for file system monitoring; I've never tried it though.
http://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GFileMonitor.html Eric On 2012-01-11, at 9:33 AM, Lucas Holt wrote: > There isn't a good, portable way to do this. On BSD, most kqueue approaches > to this problem use up a lot of file descriptors. Kqueue is generalized for > events so inotify does a better job with this specific problem. Someone tried > to implement inotify for the linuxolator aka Linux emulation on FreeBSD a few > years back but got stuck on some nasty process accounting. That code is in > their perforce repository and might have been a summer of code project. > > There are several existing open source daemons that provide this > functionality you can look at. Gamin for instance > > Lucas Holt > > On Jan 11, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Ivan Vučica <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >From what I could Google around, apparently this is done on OS X with >> >FSEvent APIs. Quickly skimming through GNUstep's NSFileManager.m, I did not >> >find any salient reference to "monitor", "watch" or "observe". >> >> Here's what appears to be a Linux-related documentation for a C-based API >> called "inotify": >> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8478 >> This IBM article also describes "inotify" on Linux: >> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-ubuntu-inotify/index.html >> but also mentions how to accomplish this on BSD OSes using something called >> kqueues. Quote: >> Note: FreeBSD and thus Mac OS X provide an analog of inotify called kqueue. >> Type man 2 kqueue on a FreeBSD machine for more information. >> >> I have never experimented with either of these three mentioned APIs. >> >> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:28, Andreas Höschler <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> my tool needs to get aware of any changes in the file system under a given >> directory (e.g. /home), for example if >> >> • a new file is created in /home/tommy/Documents >> • a file is removed anywhere below /home >> • a file /home/herbert/test.conf gets modified >> • ... >> >> I think I have once seen some method of NSFileManager or NSWorkspace that >> does exactly that, but I don't know this for sure and I can't find anything >> suitable in the class references. >> >> Any idea? >> >> I could for sure iterate through the dir with contentsOfDirectoryAtPath: and >> compare the size and attributes of any file with log entries, but this seems >> rather cumbersome! :-( >> >> Hints greatly appreciated! >> >> Thanks a lot, >> >> Andreas >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss-gnustep mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep >> >> >> >> -- >> Ivan Vučica - [email protected] >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss-gnustep mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
_______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
