On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:36, Ludwig, Michael <michael.lud...@delphi-mb.de> wrote: >> From: Andrey Repin >> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 5:11 PM > >> > Any ideas of any software that can handle this. >> >> You'd be surprised, but the very filesystem (in Unix/Linux at >> least) support >> trigger mechanism. All you need is to write appropriate filter. > > I think one such mechanism for Linux is called inotify. > > There should be similar facilities for Windows.
System.IO.FileSystemWatcher in the .NET Framework. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.filesystemwatcher.aspx FSEvents on MacOS X 10.5 and up. > Of course, there is a low-level API, but I'm thinking of > something that allows you to write: > > OnCreateFile: call somescript.cmd > OnCreateDir: perl someperl.pl > > The generic name should be *file system event monitor*. > But I haven't used any. > > Michael >
