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> Other OSes have different file monitoring capabilities though. Anyone up on file monitoring on Windows / OS X? Is directory-specific monitoring possible? yes
by radiospiel 12y ago
> Other OSes have different file monitoring capabilities though. Anyone up on file monitoring on Windows / OS X? Is directory-specific monitoring possible?
yes
- MrDosu 12y agoBut ReadDirectoryChangesW notoriously misses updates. Also it would scale horribly to large amounts of files. NTFS has a feature called Change Journals where you can view a volume as a stream of changes.