Hi Sebastian,
On 14/02/13 15:40, Sebastian Krebs wrote:
2013/2/14 Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa <ivan.ender...@hoa-project.net>
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.
At least for inotify there is an extension, which works quite fine. Never
searched something similar for other OSs.
I have written: “On Linux, we have inotify (available in PHP through
pecl/inotify)”, so yup, I know for inotify :-). I propose to gather all
these API and give a proper one to the end-user.
--
Ivan Enderlin
Developer of Hoa
http://hoa-project.net/
PhD. student at DISC/Femto-ST (Vesontio) and INRIA (Cassis)
http://disc.univ-fcomte.fr/ and http://www.inria.fr/
Member of HTML and WebApps Working Group of W3C
http://w3.org/
--
PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List
To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
