Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:26:40 -0500 From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> To: Sergey Matveychuk <sem@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> Subject: Re: watch for files Message-ID: <200511151726.40580.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>
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=Is there an utility to watch files changes and make some defined =actions. Actions defined in a configuration file. On the low level BSDs have kqueue. On the higher level there is the devel/fam port, which uses smart mechanisms on Linux and Irix, but resorts to inefficient polling everywhere else, including BSD. An attempt to teach fam the benefits of kqueue exists at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsdfam but appears to have stalled. If you have "milk and time", you best improve the devel/fam. If not, you can just the existing fam API and wait for someone else to make it BSD-aware and efficient. -mi P.S. Andrew, please, stick to English on the international mailing lists.
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