Hi internal,
A missing feature in PHP is a file system watcher/monitoring available
for almost all platforms. On Linux, we have inotify (available in PHP
through pecl/inotify), on Mac OS X, we have /dev/fsevents (not available
in PHP, since we need ioctl to do that in pure PHP —and sudo—, no C
extension needed), on FreeBSD, we have FAM, and on Windows, we have
FileSystemWatcher in .NET. All major platforms have a solution ready to use.
By now, if we didn't use these solutions, we should use a finder (thanks
to RecursiveIteratorIterator and DirectoryIterator in SPL) that runs
every n seconds and compute a diff with the previous run. This solution
works fine for a small set of files but it can slow for a big one. This
is just a tricky solution, not a proper one.
Possible domains where it is needed: test, CI, log, file transfering,
security etc.
Is it possible to have such a feature landing in PHP (core if karma
allows it)? or do you want such a feature?
Best regards :-).
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Ivan Enderlin
Developer of Hoa
http://hoa-project.net/
PhD. student at DISC/Femto-ST (Vesontio) and INRIA (Cassis)
http://disc.univ-fcomte.fr/ and http://www.inria.fr/
Member of HTML and WebApps Working Group of W3C
http://w3.org/
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