From: Matt Harrison <iwasinnamuknow@...>
Date: 2011-06-16T06:58:22+09:00
Subject: queues? inotify? anything else?

I don't even really know how to describe this problem. I know what I 
want the end result to be, but I've run into a dead end trying to figure 
out possible solutions.

I've got a script which looks for files of a given type in a directory, 
processes them, then moves the result elsewhere and removes the sources.

Currently, if I add another file to the directory while the script is 
running, it will not be noticed (I'm using a simple directory read).

I would like to be able to add file while the script is busy and have it 
append the new filename to its list. I've considered inotify type 
monitoring but I don't know much about it and if it could be made to fit 
this single-threaded script.

I've also thought about re-reading the directory after each file 
operation is complete, and adding the previously unknown filenames to 
the list.

I'm just not sure which way I should begin looking, if there's a good 
solution for this already out there, or...what.

Thanks for some input