Re: waiting for new files in a directory

[Dag-Erling Smorgrav]

What are you guys smoking? Use cron to run a spool scanning job every
minute or so, and use a lock file to make sure one doesn't start until
the previous one is done. Note that reliable locking is non-trivial in
Perl; a quick workaround is to use a lock directory instead (mkdir()
will fail if the directory exists; make sure to differentiate between
"somebody already holds the lock" and "the lock can't be created due
to permission errors or some other problem" by examining $!)

DES
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