Need to monitor a file change/deletion

[Randall Hopper]

Aaron Mahler:
 |
 |  I need to find a decent, low-impact way to monitor a file and see if
 |it has changed.

I'm not familiar with an OS-independent way to do this.  

If you're on SGI IRIX, check out fam(1M).  FAMMonitorFile() and
FAMMonitorDirectory() sound like what you need.  FAMNextEvent() blocks
until an event occurs.

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Randall Hopper
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