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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Jeroen van Disseldorp <jdizzl@xs4all.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Detecting changes in a directory tree
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 01:59:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030117005941.GT2333@fs.tum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301161358.36497.jdizzl@xs4all.nl>

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 01:58:36PM -0500, Jeroen van Disseldorp wrote:

> Hi,

Hi Jeroen,

> For an application I'm writing I need to know if files in a certain 
> directory tree were modified and/or deleted by another process. I 
> assume that that tree is mounted on the machine that my app is running 
> on. The device it has mounted on can be a local HD, but it can also be 
> hosted remotely and mounted over nfs.
> 
> I know of FAM, but this is documented to only watch a directory 1 level 
> deep, and I need the whole tree to be monitored. Does anyone know a 
> solution for this? Does the kernel provide facilities for this?
>...

with a kernel >= 2.4.19 dnotify [1] might do what you want.

> Regards,
>   Jeroen van Disseldorp         mailto:jdizzl@xs4all.nl

cu
Adrian

[1] http://www.student.lu.se/~nbi98oli/dnotify.html

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-17  0:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-16 18:58 Detecting changes in a directory tree Jeroen van Disseldorp
2003-01-17  0:59 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2003-01-17  3:54   ` Jeroen van Disseldorp
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2003-01-17 12:58 Jon Burgess

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