On 16 Dec 12, at 18:34, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > On Sun, 16 Dec 2012, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > > In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said: > >> The inotify calls are available on Linux. It tells you when a file/folder > >> changes: > >> > >> function inotify_init: cint; > >> function inotify_init1(flags:cint):cint; > >> function inotify_add_watch(fd:cint; name:Pchar; mask:cuint32):cint; > >> > >> These calls are available in the linux unit. I have an article that > >> describes how it works, if you want. > >> There is a similar mechanism on windows, but I haven't had time to look at > >> it yet: > >> I wanted to make a unified architecture for this kind of things. > > > > I think Ales was at some point working on having a common kevent +inotify > > support unit. (Kevent is the OSX/BSD variant) > > Really ? Maybe it could be added to the fcl-base ?
If so, make sure to make it a separate unit and enable this unit in fpmake.pp for the supported targets only, because I don't think that such a functionality exists for OS/2 (not even mentioning other targets supporting fcl-base like go32v2)... Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal