Re: monitoring the filesystem for changes

2007-06-03 Thread momobear
> You could use the ReadDirectoryChangesW in overlapped > mode. I've never tried it, so I don't know how > robust it would be. Why is it a problem to have > "multiple programs" running? And is that simply > multiple threads, or multiple processes? I used overlapped in my program, it runs about 1 we

Re: monitoring the filesystem for changes

2007-06-03 Thread Tim Golden
rohit wrote: > hello > well in my implementation of readdirectorychangesw i am using > threading that is multiple programs run simultaneously each program > monitoring one drive for changes. > is their a way around this...one program for all drives? > thanks You could use the ReadDirectoryChangesW

Re: monitoring the filesystem for changes

2007-06-03 Thread rohit
hello well in my implementation of readdirectorychangesw i am using threading that is multiple programs run simultaneously each program monitoring one drive for changes. is their a way around this...one program for all drives? thanks rohit -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: monitoring the filesystem for changes

2007-06-02 Thread momobear
> i have designed a desktop search utility in python and a file system > monitoring using readdirectorychangesw from win32api but for eg. it > has a high cpu utilization (using a 2GHz processor). I don't think so. I just build a service to monitor a directory changes using readdirectorychangesw, t

monitoring the filesystem for changes

2007-06-02 Thread rohit
hello, i have designed a desktop search utility in python and a file system monitoring using readdirectorychangesw from win32api but for eg. it has a high cpu utilization (using a 2GHz processor). a solution ntfs change journal proposed here works only for ntfs partitions is there another low (proc