Re: Tracking changes in the filesystem

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

I think GWorkspace does something like that and it uses the fswatcher 
daemon, but  I never checked the details.

Riccardo

On 01/11/2012 10:28 AM, Andreas Höschler wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> my tool needs to get aware of any changes in the file system under a given 
> directory (e.g. /home), for example if
>
> • a new file is created in /home/tommy/Documents
> • a file is removed anywhere below /home
> • a file /home/herbert/test.conf gets modified
> • ...
>
> I think I have once seen some method of NSFileManager or NSWorkspace that does 
> exactly that, but I don't know this for sure and I can't find anything suitable 
> in the class references.
>
> Any idea?
>
> I could for sure iterate through the dir with contentsOfDirectoryAtPath: and 
> compare the size and attributes of any file with log entries, but this seems 
> rather cumbersome! :-(
>
> Hints greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
>   Andreas
>
>
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