From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 13 1:54:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.palmerharvey.co.uk (mail.palmerharvey.co.uk [62.172.109.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B1CA14F78 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 01:54:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk) Received: from ho-nt-01.pandhm.co.uk (unverified) by mail.palmerharvey.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.0.1) with ESMTP id ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:54:42 +0100 Received: from voodoo.pandhm.co.uk (10.100.35.12 [10.100.35.12]) by ho-nt-01.pandhm.co.uk with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id SNZVMNFK; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:53:35 +0100 Received: from dom by voodoo.pandhm.co.uk with local (Exim 2.10 #1) id 11QRss-000CXt-00; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:54:46 +0100 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:54:46 +0100 To: John Polstra Cc: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: An FS question perhaps... non blocking I/O. Message-ID: <19990913095445.A48105@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> References: <000601befafb$83fbb8c0$291c453f@kbyanc.alcnet.com> <199909091954.PAA13059@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199909121756.KAA38620@vashon.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <199909121756.KAA38620@vashon.polstra.com> From: Dominic Mitchell Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 10:56:42AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > Just to avoid duplicated effort: I currently have work in progress > on a "fslog" pseudo-device. It enables you to monitor a filesystem > and receive notifications for all interesting changes to files and > directories. This includes reads, writes, renames, file creations, > unlinks, links, etc. -- anything that changes the stat(2) results > for a file, or causes directory entries to be created, destroyed, or > changed. The device itself is working, but so far I have implemented > the support for only a few of the event types. It won't take much > more work to finish it. Very nice; this is the way that Microsoft's web indexing engine works. It opens a whole host of interesting stuff... -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator "vi has two modes the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesnt." -- Anon. ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message