On 9/14/06, Stephen Shirley <diamond at skynet.ie> wrote:
> On 14/09/06, Kieran Tully <Kieran.Tully at acm.org> wrote:
> > Win32 has file notification; surely Linux has something similar?
>> I suspect something like dnotify/inotify (i forget which is
> deprecated) might give you what you're looking for.
Thanks Steve. Looks like I can watch_file() to register for events,
then block on select(dev/inotify/).
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