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From: "Sean Hamilton" <sh@planetquake.com>
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Subject: Re: Filesystem hook
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 00:26:01 -0700
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Subject: Re: Filesystem hook
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 09:43:25PM -0700, Sean Hamilton wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > In Windows, there is a filesystem hook, ie, applications can ask to be
> > notified about changes to a given file system / structure. Thus, a
directory
> > listing could automatically update, etc.
> >
> > Does FreeBSD offer a similar mechanism?
>
> Yes, the kevent(2) interface allows you to listen for events on a vnode.
> However, there is no way to request for events of its children (e.g.
> subdirectories).

Thanks, I also got another reply saying the same. Looks like it does what I
want, and a fair bit more. I suppose I could just recurse and open a bunch
of these if I needed to -- are there limits? I'll check the man page.

sh


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