Hello Julien,
On 14/02/13 15:29, Julien Pauli wrote:
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa <
ivan.ender...@hoa-project.net> wrote:
Hi internal,
A missing feature in PHP is a file system watcher/monitoring available for
almost all platforms. On Linux, we have inotify (available in PHP through
pecl/inotify), on Mac OS X, we have /dev/fsevents (not available in PHP,
since we need ioctl to do that in pure PHP —and sudo—, no C extension
needed), on FreeBSD, we have FAM, and on Windows, we have FileSystemWatcher
in .NET. All major platforms have a solution ready to use.
By now, if we didn't use these solutions, we should use a finder (thanks
to RecursiveIteratorIterator and DirectoryIterator in SPL) that runs every
n seconds and compute a diff with the previous run. This solution works
fine for a small set of files but it can slow for a big one. This is just a
tricky solution, not a proper one.
Possible domains where it is needed: test, CI, log, file transfering,
security etc.
Is it possible to have such a feature landing in PHP (core if karma allows
it)? or do you want such a feature?
Best regards :-).
Hello :-)
I don't see why we would have such a thing into PHP Core.
We are already smooth about the file system accesses with a realpath cache,
and users may use different pecl ext if they want to take hand on a lib
such as inotify.
Well ok, forget PHP core, but an extension would be great.
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PhD. student at DISC/Femto-ST (Vesontio) and INRIA (Cassis)
http://disc.univ-fcomte.fr/ and http://www.inria.fr/
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