Re: Looking for a file monitor

[Diego Calleja]

El Fri, 24 Feb 2006 02:06:27 -0600,
Hareesh Nagarajan <hnagar2@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:


> dnotify has been succeeded by inotify. check the link below:
> 	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/inotify/README

IIRC, inotify is not the best thing for examining system-wide events.
Monitoring of directories is not recursive (neither it should, i think)
so to examine the whole system you would need to need thousands of
watches.
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