On 2014-04-12 20:16, Henry Vermaak wrote: > > No, the linux solution isn't distro dependent, since it's in the kernel. > inotify came in 2005-ish to deprecate dnotify, but even dnotify still
OK, but does FCL include a cross-platform API that covers all platforms? When I looked at this before (1.5 years ago) I couldn't find anything, and I needed the file monitor functionality under several platforms (MacOSX, FreeBSD, all Linux distros, Windows and RPi). So by implementing a cross-platform solution in pure Object Pascal was just way easier, and it worked everywhere first time round. If FCL doesn't contain such a cross-platform API for this, then maybe something could be implemented. Use "native" OS/Kernel API's where support exists, and use the pure Object Pascal implementation as a fallback. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
