perl-Filesys-Notify-Simple

Simple and dumb file system watcher

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 the File::ChangeNotify manpage. * * 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 the Linux::Inotify2 manpage, the Mac::FSEvents manpage, the Filesys::Notify::KQueue manpage and the Win32::ChangeNotify manpage are truely optional. NOTE: Using the Win32::ChangeNotify manpage may put additional limitations. * * the Win32::ChangeNotify manpage 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 the Win32::ChangeNotify manpage is not used. * * If more than 64 directories are included under the specified paths, an error occurrs.