monitoring file added to a directory / subdirectories

abhi_abhijith · 02-09-2006, 10:55 PM

hi...

i need pointers to books/website...

'm trytin to write a daemon ( using C )that monitors files of particular type(eg. text or pdfs) copied onto the hard disk. the daemon should detect the above n write the file name (along with the absolute path) to a file.
please DO NOT give me the code explicitly...

---thank u

Agrouf · 02-10-2006, 04:25 AM

google for the dnotify API or inotify. There is a project called dnotify as well.

abhi_abhijith · 02-10-2006, 05:14 AM

i do not want the ready-to-use API or the tool... i really want to learn how to write such tools..

so can u please give me any references, using which i can learn

-- Thank YOu

primo · 02-11-2006, 12:41 AM

The advice given to you is good. Inotify is a kernel patch that implements a mechanism which is better than dnotify (based on directories). See fcntl(2) for the available help on it.

You may see inotify at:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwork...l-inotify.html

There's FAM also at:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/

abhi_abhijith · 02-13-2006, 07:25 AM

hi...

if i set the directory to be watched as "/" using dnotify, does it monitor only the contents of "/" or does it also watch the sub-directories????

If dnotify cannot achive this can this be done using inotify???

-Thank You