in reply to Watching a driectory for change
How are you doing this at the moment? A code sample would help. Are you checking the directory manually to see if anything has changed? Or are you using a sript to poll the directory and compare it's contents with a cached list?
It would also help to know how files are being 'put' in that directory? Do they get put in there by users, or are they auto-generated by scripts? If they're generated then maybe a quick hack to the generator-script could issue you with a notification.
There is one module that I know of, available at CPAN, that might be of use to you here. Look into the Win32::ChangeNotify module which allows you to monitor events relating to files and directory trees.
Try running it with the FILE_NAME flag set to only monitor creating/deleting/renaming of files in a given directory.
Hope this helps
- wil
It would also help to know how files are being 'put' in that directory? Do they get put in there by users, or are they auto-generated by scripts? If they're generated then maybe a quick hack to the generator-script could issue you with a notification.
There is one module that I know of, available at CPAN, that might be of use to you here. Look into the Win32::ChangeNotify module which allows you to monitor events relating to files and directory trees.
Try running it with the FILE_NAME flag set to only monitor creating/deleting/renaming of files in a given directory.
Hope this helps
- wil
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