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Date:      Sat, 20 Jul 2002 00:22:37 -0700
From:      Jon Mini <baka@elvis.mu.org>
To:        Sean Hamilton <sh@planetquake.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Filesystem hook
Message-ID:  <20020720072237.GF31134@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <001501c22fa7$fd418a50$f019e8d8@slugabed.org>
References:  <001501c22fa7$fd418a50$f019e8d8@slugabed.org>

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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).

-- 
Jonathan Mini <mini@freebsd.org>
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