perl-Filesys-Notify-Simple

Filesys::Notify::Simple is a simple but unified interface to get
notifications of changes to a given filesystem path. It utilizes inotify2
on Linux, fsevents on OS X, kqueue on FreeBSD and
FindFirstChangeNotification on Windows if they're installed, with a
fallback to the full directory scan if they're not available.
There are some limitations in this module. If you don't like it, use
File::ChangeNotify.

There is no file name based filter. Do it in your own code.

You can not get types of events (created, updated, deleted).

Currently 'wait' method blocks.


In return, this module doesn't depend on any non-core modules. Platform
specific optimizations with Linux::Inotify2, Mac::FSEvents,
Filesys::Notify::KQueue and Win32::ChangeNotify are truely optional.
NOTE: Using Win32::ChangeNotify may put additional limitations.

Win32::ChangeNotify uses FindFirstChangeNotificationA so that Unicode

characters can not be handled. On cygwin (1.7 or later), Unicode characters
should be able to be handled when Win32::ChangeNotify is not used.

If more than 64 directories are included under the specified paths, an

error occurrs.

          

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License: Artistic-1.0 OR GPL-1.0-or-later
URL: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Filesys-Notify-Simple/