"Jay Savage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Where is all this headed? File monitoring relies on Step 4. Step 4 is
> where the directory pointers and block counts get updated, and the
> ctime and mtime get rewritten. Once your system performs Step 4,
> File::Monitor will see the change on its next r
On Jan 25, 2008 12:20 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Jay Savage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Finally, Tom's points are important. How do you *know* that the files
> > (in this case a single directory) changed *during the sleep*? Do you
> > know that the output wasn't buffered? That the sy
On Jan 25, 2008 9:20 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How long of a sleep would be required to *KNOW* a change has happened
> with something external writing to files?
You want to be sure the other task is finished? Several days of
waiting should suffice for better than 99.999% of all cases. If
"Jay Savage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Finally, Tom's points are important. How do you *know* that the files
> (in this case a single directory) changed *during the sleep*? Do you
> know that the output wasn't buffered? That the system didn't delay the
> writes for some reason? That you were e
"Jay Savage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...] Thanks for the pointers
> Finally, Tom's points are important. How do you *know* that the files
> (in this case a single directory) changed *during the sleep*? Do you
> know that the output wasn't buffered? That the system didn't delay the
> writes
"Tom Phoenix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Jan 24, 2008 12:34 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Can anyone provide a real example of using File::Monitor?
>
> Aren't the examples in the docs and the t/ directory "real" enough for
> you? There's even a file in the examples/ directory; it look
On Jan 24, 2008 3:34 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What I really want to do is monitor a directory recursively but here
> just trying to use it any basic way to start to `get' how to use it.
>
For starter, you haven't turned on the recurse flag. Take another look
at the arguments to File::Mon
On Jan 24, 2008 12:34 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can anyone provide a real example of using File::Monitor?
Aren't the examples in the docs and the t/ directory "real" enough for
you? There's even a file in the examples/ directory; it looks pretty
real to me. Does it work for you?
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