On Fre, 04 Jan 2002, Scott Simpson wrote:

> there any way to detect if a change has been made to a file such as data
> changing, a change in ownership, a permissions change, etc
> programmatically? I looked through the various file system source code
> in the Linux kernel and didn't see anything that jumped out at me. Thank

You want the linux directory notification (see documentation in linux source 
tree). Its not very advanced and not very relieable, but is the best thing 
Linux provides. 


Dirk

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