From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-10-27T04:40:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby fs watcher?

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Paul Lutus wrote:

> ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>
> / ...
>
>> in summary, having written three or four such systems and ultimately
>> arriving at the code for dirwatch, which we've used in production for 24x7
>> satellite ingest systems for several year, i can assure you the task isn't
>> quite that trivial.
>
> Yes, but the OP wants to know how to do it, not produce a mature, robust
> version. He may want to learn the programming aspects on his own, make his
> own mistakes. From the content of his post, he didn't bother to yield any
> time during execution, therefore his script ate up the CPU and consequently
> failed.
>
> At that level, a simple solution really is simple.

i guess you're right.  i get defensive at the mere suggestion of simply event
or cron based processing systems without mutual exclusion - i've debugged way
too many of them!

cheers.

-a
-- 
my religion is very simple.  my religion is kindness. -- the dalai lama