R P Herrold wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > > >Sure I understand that, but If I wanted it to be within 15 > >seconds response, I'd have to check 4times x 60 seconds x 60 > >minutes x 24 hours per day. Kind of a waste for a file that > >may or may not be transmitted each day. > > push v pull, poll v select -- SGI formerly had 'fam' and the > fam daemon to make this more economical, and we shipped it in > centos-2 > > http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=bks&fname=/SGI_Developer/books/IIDsktp_IG/sgi_html/ch08.html > > and > > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/ CentOS 4 ships with gamin, which is API compatible to fam. CentOS 5 will have inotify. Ralph -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070216/f3842a93/attachment-0005.sig>