• Gary Willoughby (5/5) May 23 2013 Is there anything in the standard library to help writing a file
• Benjamin Thaut (9/13) May 23 2013 I have something like this implemented for windows. It watches a entire
• David (3/20) May 23 2013 For Linux you can use inotify
• Jacob Carlborg (5/7) May 23 2013 I think the corresponding for Mac OS X is fsevents:
• Gary Willoughby (4/4) May 23 2013 Hmmm.. this is what i first thought. I think i'll implement a
• Zz (3/7) Jul 15 2013 https://code.google.com/p/simplefilewatcher/

"Gary Willoughby" <dev kalekold.net> writes:

Is there anything in the standard library to help writing a file 
watcher? I want to monitor a single file for changes and if a 
change is detected call a function. Is there any existing 
libraries to do this in D as it must be cross-platform as much as 
possible?

Benjamin Thaut <code benjamin-thaut.de> writes:

Am 23.05.2013 17:26, schrieb Gary Willoughby:
 Is there anything in the standard library to help writing a file
 watcher? I want to monitor a single file for changes and if a change is
 detected call a function. Is there any existing libraries to do this in
 D as it must be cross-platform as much as possible?

I have something like this implemented for windows. It watches a entire 
directory including subdirectories (optional) and tells you which files 
changed upon request:

https://github.com/Ingrater/thBase/blob/master/src/thBase/directory.d

I don't think its possible to imiplement this cross-plattform. You will 
have to reimplement for every plattform you need it on.

Kind Regards
Benjamin Thaut

David <d dav1d.de> writes:

Am 23.05.2013 17:35, schrieb Benjamin Thaut:
 Am 23.05.2013 17:26, schrieb Gary Willoughby:
 Is there anything in the standard library to help writing a file
 watcher? I want to monitor a single file for changes and if a change is
 detected call a function. Is there any existing libraries to do this in
 D as it must be cross-platform as much as possible?

 
 I have something like this implemented for windows. It watches a entire
 directory including subdirectories (optional) and tells you which files
 changed upon request:
 
 https://github.com/Ingrater/thBase/blob/master/src/thBase/directory.d
 
 I don't think its possible to imiplement this cross-plattform. You will
 have to reimplement for every plattform you need it on.
 
 Kind Regards
 Benjamin Thaut

For Linux you can use inotify

http://linux.die.net/man/7/inotify

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 2013-05-23 18:19, David wrote:

 For Linux you can use inotify

 http://linux.die.net/man/7/inotify

I think the corresponding for Mac OS X is fsevents:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSEvents

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

"Gary Willoughby" <dev kalekold.net> writes:

Hmmm.. this is what i first thought. I think i'll implement a 
simple watcher based on modification times as a first iteration. 
Then if time allows add platform specific solutions based on the 
above. Thanks.

"Zz" <Zz nospam.com> writes:

https://code.google.com/p/simplefilewatcher/

may help with platform specific solutions.

On Thursday, 23 May 2013 at 18:56:41 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
 Hmmm.. this is what i first thought. I think i'll implement a 
 simple watcher based on modification times as a first 
 iteration. Then if time allows add platform specific solutions 
 based on the above. Thanks.