On 15/02/13 14:29, Sebastian Krebs wrote:
2013/2/15 Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa <ivan.ender...@hoa-project.net>
On 15/02/13 14:20, Sebastian Krebs wrote:
2013/2/15 Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa <ivan.ender...@hoa-project.net**>
Hi Stas,
On 14/02/13 22:37, Stas Malyshev wrote:
Hi!
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.
I think it'd be great to have a library with unified interface and an
extension that uses it. However, I'm not sure if these libraries are
useful in common php use case - short-lived requests. Could I get the
changes since the last request? Or is it useful only for long-running
persistent processes?
It is only useful for long-running processes.
For example when you are writting tests: at each modifications, you would
like to re-run or re-generate tests. In this case, you have a daemon that
watches files changes and executes a command when needed.
Why do you need PHP for this?
http://stackoverflow.com/**questions/3283228/bash-**
execute-script-on-file-save#**answer-3283390<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3283228/bash-execute-script-on-file-save#answer-3283390>
I don't understand your point.
For the use-case you described here a PHP-implementation is not required,
because you can use the system-tools to invoke PHPUnit. In fact you don't
need a daemon at all ;)
It is an example :-). I could reply: why do you need need PHPUnit, there
is so much other tools ;-).
Well, you get the point. These is a lot of applications.
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