Filesys::Notify::Simple.3pm

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Version: 2009-11-29 (fedora - 01/12/10)

Section: 3 (Bibliothèques de fonctions)

NAME

Filesys::Notify::Simple - Simple and dumb file system watcher

SYNOPSIS

   use Filesys::Notify::Simple;
 
   my $watcher = Filesys::Notify::Simple->new([ "." ]);
   $watcher->wait(sub {
       for my $event (@_) {
           $event->{path} # full path of the file updated
       }
   });
 
 

DESCRIPTION

Filesys::Notify::Simple is a simple but unified interface to get notifications of changes to a given filesystem path. It utilizes inotify2 on Linux and fsevents on OS X 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 and Mac::FSEvents are truely optional.

AUTHOR

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net>

LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

File::ChangeNotify Mac::FSEvents Linux::Inotify2