monitoring a directory

[Tim Golden]

>Now how do I do this for UNIX?
>
>I always did the 1 second looping thing and felt somewhat ashamed that
>I couldn't think of anything better... It seems like there should be
>some sort of blocking system call that will return when a directory or
>file changes -- something like "select".
>
>Yours,
>Noah

Personally, I'm ignorant, but this guy seems to know what
he's talking about:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/217829

TJG

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