> You could use the ReadDirectoryChangesW in overlapped > mode. I've never tried it, so I don't know how > robust it would be. Why is it a problem to have > "multiple programs" running? And is that simply > multiple threads, or multiple processes? I used overlapped in my program, it runs about 1 week, seems no problems now. FILE_LIST_DIRECTORY = 0x0001 hDir = None
def __init__(self, directory): self.hDir = win32file.CreateFile ( directory, self.FILE_LIST_DIRECTORY, win32con.FILE_SHARE_READ | win32con.FILE_SHARE_WRITE, None, win32con.OPEN_EXISTING, win32con.FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS| win32con.FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED, None ) but I didn't try use multiple program do the same action. I think only one thread to do directory monitor is enough. other thread and process can communicate with it use thread or process communication. Wang Wei -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list