Subj : Re: Idea: Filesystem signals
To   : comp.os.linux
From : =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lin=F8nut?=
Date : Tue Aug 24 2004 10:38 pm

Error BR-549: MS DRM 1.0 rejects the following post from Adam:

> I'm wondering what people think of following idea.  Whenever a file in
> the computer's filesystem is changed, a signal is sent to all
> processes.  Maybe best is for the signal to include (somehow) the
> specific file that was modified.
>
> Maybe something like this already exists or I'm completely missing
> something; please tell me about it if so.

Something similar is described in the Linux kernel documentation.  Download a
kernel tar file, extract it, and read (your root dir may vary)

   /usr/src/linux/Documentation/dnotify.txt

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