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How to detect file creation in a directory ?

I need to do a program that stay monitoring a directory looking for new files, but I think that use of "timers" is not the best pratice to build efficient application. Then, I'm looking for resources (system calls, etc) that keep the program in idle mode until a occurency of file creation events, etc.

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Luciano.

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Hi Luciano,

Quoted 8 lines · On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 09:23:01 -0300 "Luciano - igLnx" <[email protected]>…

How to detect file creation in a directory ?

I need to do a program that stay monitoring a directory looking for new files, but I think that use of "timers" is not the best pratice to build efficient application. Then, I'm looking for resources (system calls, etc) that keep the program in idle mode until a occurency of file creation events, etc.

See Documentation/dnotify.txt

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