wait until change

[Heiko Wundram]

Michael Geary wrote:

>And to be *really* complete, Windows NT/2000/XP has the
>ReadDirectoryChangesW function, which has some improvements over the
>Find...ChangeNotification functions. Not available on Win95/98/Me, though.
>
>-Mike
>  
>

And to be really, really complete, Unix (in my case Linux, afaik also 
works under Solaris and HP-UX) has FAM (the file alteration monitor), 
which works as a user-space daemon to which a program can attach to get 
a file/directory change notification. The daemon itself uses a special 
kernel module to get these notification right from the VFS (virtual file 
system).

I recall that there was a Python-wrapper somewhere for the fam client 
library.

HTH!

Heiko.