on Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:08:48 GMT, Rupert Heesom wrote:
> I'm struggling to implement the win32::Changenotify method in a
> script.
>
> [...]
>
> The relevent code snippet :
> $NewTIFF = Win32::ChangeNotify->new("i:\\",True,"FILE_NAME");
> while(True)
> {
>
> $NewTIFF->wait or warn "Somethings wrong: $!\n";
>
> foreach(@TIFFDirs)
> {
> ### processing each directory #####
> }
>
> $NewTIFF->reset;
> }
Is 'i:' an mapped network drive by any chance? I just ran a quick test on
my network (with two Win98 machines), with the following results:
ChangeNotify doesn't notify a change, unless the change (in my case, the
creation of a new file) is done by the machine on which the Perl program
watching the directory runs.
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