Re: Monitoring a folder?
Re: Monitoring a folder?
- Subject: Re: Monitoring a folder?
- From: Chris Pavicich <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:36:10 -0400
Matt:
Kqueue will also watch files. It's not available prior to 10.3, unfortunately.
Not sure about Folder Actions, but I would guess that they cannot be attached to a single file. (If someone else has more info, please correct me).
HTH,
CMP
On Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at 12:33PM, Matt Jaffa <email@hidden> wrote:
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Do these techniques also apply to files within a folder,
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I want to watch a file for any changes made to it,
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and want it to be compatible with 10.2 and 10.3,
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but maybe just 10.3 if I want my app to not support 10.2
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Thanks,
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Matt
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On Apr 20, 2004, at 10:07 AM, Shawn Erickson wrote:
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> On Apr 20, 2004, at 8:26 AM, Christoffer Lerno wrote:
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>> Would it be possible to have a program that watches a folder and gets
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>> notified whenever something is written to it? Is it possible to maybe
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>> even get information about the process that made the change (creating
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>> a new file, changing file contents etc)
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> You can attach AppleScripts to a folder that can do things, they are
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> called Folder Actions [1].
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> Additionally you can use kqueues [2] to monitor changes like what you
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> outlined. Apple even provides a code example of this [3].
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> -Shawn
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> [1] <http://www.apple.com/applescript/folderactions/>
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> <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/
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> html/kqueue.2.html>
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> <http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/FileNotification/
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> FileNotification.html>
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