From: Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] How to monitor a specific file for changes
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:20:01 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071023052001.517e957e.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b17e12b30710221203o17cb0bc0sfba89354cd5cd809@mail.gmail.com>
Orlin Grigorov wrote:
> Hi.
>
> This time I've done my research, but still I cannot find a good answer.
> Basically, I need to make a little ocaml process, which runs in the
> background and monitors a specific file for changes. When a change occurs,
> I want it to back-up a copy of the version of the file at that moment.
> So, what I need is to set some signal or event, which will happen every time
> that file is changed.
If you are on Linux/Unix, have a look at Inotify. The Ocaml bindings are
here:
http://tab.snarc.org/projects/ocaml_inotify/
HTH,
Erik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-22 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-22 19:03 Orlin Grigorov
2007-10-22 19:05 ` [Caml-list] " Robert Fischer
2007-10-22 19:09 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2007-10-22 19:11 ` [Caml-list] " Andrew Gacek
2007-10-22 19:20 ` Erik de Castro Lopo [this message]
2007-10-22 19:30 ` Orlin Grigorov
2007-10-22 19:38 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-10-22 19:39 ` Jake Donham
2007-10-22 19:44 ` Orlin Grigorov
2007-10-22 19:42 ` Karl Zilles
2007-10-22 19:57 ` Orlin Grigorov
2007-10-23 7:50 ` Dave Benjamin
2007-10-23 17:17 ` Orlin Grigorov
2007-10-24 12:54 ` Richard Jones
2007-10-24 18:14 ` Karl Zilles
2007-10-24 21:56 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2007-10-22 19:43 ` Re : [Caml-list] " Adrien
2007-10-22 19:59 ` Gordon Henriksen
2007-10-24 12:53 ` Richard Jones
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