On Sat, 19 May 2007, Jan Kandziora wrote:

> There is no need for special "interrupt driven programming" in Linux, as
> Un*x -- in opposition to DOS -- is a multi-tasking OS by nature. It handles
> *all* tasks as "interrupt-driven".
>
> Set up a shell script with an endless loop, poll, sleep a second, poll ...
> Other tasks will run during the sleeping automatically.

If you want to watch a bunch files that you are adding to elsewhere you 
can use select so that you are woken when any of them change.

man 2 select

njh

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