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Directory Access Monitoring
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| Claudius Zingerli 2005-02-20, 6:20 pm |
| Dear NG,
Is there any way to get notified if someone moved a file into a
directory? I'm searching for something like:
handle=open(directory)
....
rc=select(handle);
if (rc>0) { do something }
My target is to write a program A that "listens" on a directory (like a
socket on a port). Another program B then moves a file into this
directory. Program A notices this and processes this file.
Does anyone know an API call or a solution for me? My program should run
at least on FreeBSD but Linux would also be nice. Is there any common
way to do that?
Thanks a lot!
Claudius
[dcoup readers: please ignore, my fault]
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| Michael B Allen 2005-02-20, 6:20 pm |
| On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 19:06:29 -0500, Claudius Zingerli wrote:
> My target is to write a program A that "listens" on a directory (like a
> socket on a port). Another program B then moves a file into this
> directory. Program A notices this and processes this file.
On linux look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/dnotify.txt. FreeBSD
probably has something similar. There are also utility programs that will
execute a command in reponse to a directory changing. You might also
be able to simply open the directory of interest and fstat it every 5
seconds to see if mtime has changed. I've never done any of this however.
Mike
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| Heiner Steven 2005-02-20, 6:20 pm |
| Claudius Zingerli wrote:
> Dear NG,
>
> Is there any way to get notified if someone moved a file into a
> directory? I'm searching for something like:
>
> handle=open(directory)
> ...
> rc=select(handle);
> if (rc>0) { do something }
>
> My target is to write a program A that "listens" on a directory (like a
> socket on a port). Another program B then moves a file into this
> directory. Program A notices this and processes this file.
>
> Does anyone know an API call or a solution for me? My program should run
> at least on FreeBSD but Linux would also be nice. Is there any common
> way to do that?
I think there is no common (at least no standard) way to monitor
a directory for changes.
Since this is a common problem, there are different solutions, though.
You could e.g.
o use FAM (File Access Monitoring)
o Solaris event ports (starting with Solaris 10)
Heiner
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| SM Ryan 2005-02-20, 6:20 pm |
| Claudius Zingerli <msnews@zeuz.ch> wrote:
# Dear NG,
#
# Is there any way to get notified if someone moved a file into a
# directory? I'm searching for something like:
If you have kqueue on your system (BSD and perhaps ported to some Linuxes),
open the directory read-only, then set a kevent to watch the inode of the
open file. Changes to the directory will change the inode and be reported
back to you.
--
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Quit killing people. That's high profile.
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| Markus Elfring 2005-02-20, 6:20 pm |
| > My target is to write a program A that "listens" on a directory (like a
> socket on a port). Another program B then moves a file into this
> directory. Program A notices this and processes this file.
>
> Does anyone know an API call or a solution for me? My program should run
> at least on FreeBSD but Linux would also be nice. Is there any common
> way to do that?
Would you like to use the free tool "File Alteration Monitor"?
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/faq.html#what_is_fam
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| Claudius Zingerli 2005-02-21, 6:00 pm |
| Thanks for the many responses. I finally used kqueue and kevent in
FreeBSD and the fcntl-calls in Linux.
Claudius
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