Listen to file changes
Hi all I want to monitor files access and change time. How can I listen to specific file or directory to monitor ? I'm coding with c. Thanks In advance ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Listen to file changes
On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 01:45:43 -0800 (PST), Jack Mc Lauren wrote: Hi all I want to monitor files access and change time. How can I listen to specific file or directory to monitor ? I'm coding with c. If I remember correctly, what you're searching for does already exist: FAM - the File Alteration Monitor. It's in the ports collection (/usr/ports/devel/fam). There are also C++ and Ruby bindings, maybe you can also interface with C... For C: Maybe using readdir() et al. could be useful? Also see man 5 inode, man 5 dir and man 3 readdir for more info. And struct ufs2_dinode in /usr/include/ufs/ufs/dinode.h should have the information you need to parse for; maybe also check the FILE type in /usr/include/stdio.h for access flags. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Listen to file changes
On 12/14/12 10:34, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 01:45:43 -0800 (PST), Jack Mc Lauren wrote: Hi all I want to monitor files access and change time. How can I listen to specific file or directory to monitor ? I'm coding with c. If I remember correctly, what you're searching for does already exist: FAM - the File Alteration Monitor. It's in the ports collection (/usr/ports/devel/fam). There are also C++ and Ruby bindings, maybe you can also interface with C... For C: Maybe using readdir() et al. could be useful? Also see man 5 inode, man 5 dir and man 3 readdir for more info. And struct ufs2_dinode in /usr/include/ufs/ufs/dinode.h should have the information you need to parse for; maybe also check the FILE type in /usr/include/stdio.h for access flags. See also kevent(2) and the EVFILT_VNODE system filter. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
