Re: a little (folish?) idea

["Martin P. Hellwig" <mhellwig@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:27:20 +0200, Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
>
> > Thank you for your reply/time, I wonder if there would be a other more 
> > elegant way to notify a program when a certain (text)file is changed. 
> > Doing it the way that it happens immediately but without burden on the 
> > system, or is this a technical paradox?
>
>
> You can use kqueue for this, it provides a low level engine to implement
> e.g. devel/fam. It still requires that you have a list of all files you
> want to be informed about and likely also the directories. The later might
> change in the future by allowing you to capture namespace changes.

That would approach the basics enough indeed, I'm sure gonna play with 
it in the near future, thanks!

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