Re: monitoring file modifications
Re: monitoring file modifications
- Subject: Re: monitoring file modifications
- From: Ben Hines <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 19:30:40 -0800
At 2:17 PM -0800 12/8/01, James Duncan Davidson wrote:
On 12/7/01 09:35, "David Feldman" <email@hidden> wrote:
No. You will need to poll the directory. OS X does not support file
system notifications.
That's unfortunate. Presumably if one were well-versed enough (which I'm
not) one could modify Darwin to support it?
Surely. IIRC a conversation I had with a friend of mine who used to work at
SGI, Irix had file system change notifications. However, even if you
The "fs_usage" tool will tell you whenever any file is written to. It
could easily be wrapped in Cocoa.
-Ben
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