On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 10:56:42AM -0700, John Polstra wrote:
> Just to avoid duplicated effort: I currently have work in progress
> on a "fslog" pseudo-device. It enables you to monitor a filesystem
> and receive notifications for all interesting changes to files and
> directories. This includes reads, writes, renames, file creations,
> unlinks, links, etc. -- anything that changes the stat(2) results
> for a file, or causes directory entries to be created, destroyed, or
> changed. The device itself is working, but so far I have implemented
> the support for only a few of the event types. It won't take much
> more work to finish it.
Very nice; this is the way that Microsoft's web indexing engine works.
It opens a whole host of interesting stuff...
--
Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator
"vi has two modes the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesnt."
-- Anon.
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