Greg Lindstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello- > I am writing an application where I need to recognize when a file > arrives in a given directory. Files may arrive at any time during the > course of the day. Do I set up a cron job to poll the directory every > few minutes? Write a daemon to monitor the directory? Or is there some > other more common/accepted way to perform this task? I'm using Python > 2.3 on Linux.
At my last job, we had a similar problem and I wanted to be able to check that the file was closed by the application that was putting it there (in that case the application was w32 writing to a share via samba). http://cmg.dok.org/cgi-bin/pyblosxom.cgi/python/linuxlease/ Every other way I could find that relied on simple FS semantics had the possibility of reading a file partially. -- Chris Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eschew obfuscation. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
