Equivalent linux notify for FreeBSD

Paul Procacci pprocacci at gmail.com
Sun Apr 18 07:24:47 UTC 2021


This thread goes over several solutions which use kqueue:

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/inotify-for-freebsd.38162/

Last post was 2018' but I'm pretty sure the information there still applies.
If you are comfortable writing C, you could even write a small binary which
does this (using kqueue) yourself.

~Paul


On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 2:46 AM Carlos Lopez <clopmz at outlook.com> wrote:

> Good morning,
>
>  Is there something equivalent like the inotify options for FreeBSD? I am
> trying to generate a script that monitors a list of files and moves them
> once they are closed.
>
>
> Best regards,
> C. L. Martinez
>
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