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Unix How-To: File Updates in Linux

• nailer 17y ago
  The python function also has a stat, in os somewhere I believe. If you want to see when these things change -eg, when a file is modified, you can use pyinotify.
  • wendroid 17y ago
    It would be a sad day if your programming language didn't have stat. Inotify is only present if your Linux-kernel is compiled with it turned on. If you want to use it in shell scripts there's inotify-tools (that's the Debian name anyway). Sadly GNU got their grubby fingers in and invented the stupid D-BUS. In FreeBSD there's kqueue which does a similar job.
    • nailer 17y ago
      Cool re: kqueue, I'll have to check that out. You don't know if there's an equivalent for Solaris 8 by chance? DBus is in RHEL and Ubuntu, that covers most Linux OSs. DBus is a publish subscribe mechanism used as a kind of IPC, inotify is a way of registering interest in an inode to avoid having to do filly things like polling a file continually.
      • wendroid 17y ago
        No idea about Solaris, but I'm sure there is a file notification system there too. Not all Kernels are stock USE="-dbus -hal" and that's the way I likes it.
        • nailer 17y ago
          Sure, but you know you removed them, so you know you can't use them. Everyone else who didn't can expect them.