Re: Monitoring a folder?
Re: Monitoring a folder?
- Subject: Re: Monitoring a folder?
- From: Matt Jaffa <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:33:03 -0600
Do these techniques also apply to files within a folder,
I want to watch a file for any changes made to it,
and want it to be compatible with 10.2 and 10.3,
but maybe just 10.3 if I want my app to not support 10.2
Thanks,
Matt
On Apr 20, 2004, at 10:07 AM, Shawn Erickson wrote:
On Apr 20, 2004, at 8:26 AM, Christoffer Lerno wrote:
Would it be possible to have a program that watches a folder and gets
notified whenever something is written to it? Is it possible to maybe
even get information about the process that made the change (creating
a new file, changing file contents etc)
You can attach AppleScripts to a folder that can do things, they are
called Folder Actions [1].
Additionally you can use kqueues [2] to monitor changes like what you
outlined. Apple even provides a code example of this [3].
-Shawn
[1] <http://www.apple.com/applescript/folderactions/>
[2]
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/
html/kqueue.2.html>
[3]
<http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/FileNotification/
FileNotification.html>
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