[TriLUG] What are some cool things to do with inotify?

[Steve Litt]

Thanks David,

That's an outstanding and practical example for my group!

If anybody has additional examples, please speak up.

Thanks,

SteveT

On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:09:51 -0400
David Brain <dbrain at gmail.com> wrote:

> As an example of something that has already been done.
> 
> https://code.google.com/p/lsyncd/
> 
> Definitely useful in some circumstances.
> 
> David.
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Steve Litt
> <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > On 5/1/2013 I'm giving an inotify presentation at GoLUG, where I'll
> > show the code to discover and act on file changes in a directory.
> > The code itself is pretty cookbook. What might be more challenging
> > is to make it interesting and applicable. Therefore I'd like to ask
> > this question:
> >
> > What are some cool things that can be done with inotify?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > SteveT
> >
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