From: Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22@...>
Date: 2006-10-27T03:22:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby fs watcher?

On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 03:10:42AM +0900, Jean-Etienne Durand wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wrote a script processing some files in a directory: each time there 
> is a new file in a given directory, I do something. So, my problem here 
> is to know when a new file arrived in the dir.
> What I do now is to try to open the file in exclusive mode and do not 
> process the file if it fails, but polling just kills the cpu.
> 
> I am wondering if somebody could explain me an elegant notification 
> solution?

If you're using Linux, you can use dnotify (and the newer 'anotify'
where applicable).  I have no idea how Windows would handle such a
thing, if at all.

-- Thomas Adam

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