monitor util in a scripted daemon?

[Matthew Seaman]

On 23/07/2010 20:58:06, Neil Smith wrote:
> - Is there a command (native, shell, or ports collection) to sit and watch for new file creation in a directory?

gamin -- http://people.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/

> - I'd like to build a system startup script for such a command and its scripted actions. Sound possible?

It's in ports already.  Doesn't appear to have a separate rc script --
it's part of gnome, and would get run along with those applications.

> - Is there already something in the default OS that does something similar?

Look at kevent(2), kqueue(2) -- the EVFILT_VNODE filter can be used to
pick up changes to the link count of a directory: ie that a file has
been created or destroyed within it. Some C programming required.  AFAIK
there isn't a ready built application in the base OS to do what you want.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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