Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 00:26:01 -0700 From: "Sean Hamilton" <sh@planetquake.com> To: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Filesystem hook Message-ID: <001d01c22fbe$b39bf770$f019e8d8@slugabed.org> References: <001501c22fa7$fd418a50$f019e8d8@slugabed.org> <20020720072237.GF31134@elvis.mu.org>
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Subject: Re: Filesystem hook > On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 09:43:25PM -0700, Sean Hamilton wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > In Windows, there is a filesystem hook, ie, applications can ask to be > > notified about changes to a given file system / structure. Thus, a directory > > listing could automatically update, etc. > > > > Does FreeBSD offer a similar mechanism? > > Yes, the kevent(2) interface allows you to listen for events on a vnode. > However, there is no way to request for events of its children (e.g. > subdirectories). Thanks, I also got another reply saying the same. Looks like it does what I want, and a fair bit more. I suppose I could just recurse and open a bunch of these if I needed to -- are there limits? I'll check the man page. sh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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