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Subject: Re: I need to control a bunch of files.
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Vitali Malicky writes

> I need to control a bunch of files.
> As soon as any of these files changes it should
> be immediately rechecked and correct chmod and
> chown reset on this file(s).

> I'd like them to be controlled by a process which
> would monitor any possible changes in these files
> and would do the job upon the event.

If it's a local file system, you may be able to
do it with the kqueue(2)/kevent(2) mechanism.


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