From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-10-27T03:44:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby fs watcher?

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, 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?
>
> Thank you,
> Jean-Etienne

http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/dirwatch/
http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/dirwatch/dirwatch-0.9.0/README

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