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From: Billy O'Connor <billy@oconnoronline.net>
Subject: Re: Detecting file changes?
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:50:29 -0400 (EDT)
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   >From billy  Mon Jun 10 16:51:33 2002
   Date:	Mon, 10 Jun 2002 22:47:21 +0100
   From: Christopher Quinn <cq@htec.demon.co.uk>
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   Hello list.

   Is there a way other than polling to detect when a file's contents change?
   I was hoping something like select(2).
   Any ideas?

   Thanks,
   Chris

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Check out sgi_fam.  This uses select to monitor file accesses.  One
source would be:

http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/redhat/redhat-7.3-en/os/i386/SRPMS/fam-2.6.7-6.src.rpm

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Billy O'Connor