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Old 12-05-2012, 06:22 PM   #1
co2calpoly
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Checking Directory for New File / Recently Added in C using stat()

I am coding in C on RHEL 5.6 and trying to execute a function only when a new file has been added to a known directory.
I am currently using stat(directory, &buffer); and comparing the modification time 'buffer.st_mtime' with a saved value.
This activates on both addition and removal of files but I only care about addition.
Does anyone know of an approach to check only if a file has been added to a directory?
Thanks.
 
Old 12-06-2012, 04:59 PM   #2
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I see you've marked this "SOLVED" (presumably you discovered the inotify API in glibc), so I'll just make a token reply to take this topic off of the zero-reply list.
 
  


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