On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:28:46 +0200, Eric MALENFANT <Eric.Malenfant@sagem-interstar.com> wrote:
De Scott McMurray:
On 29 April 2010 23:43, Fernando Pelliccioni wrote:
Basically the library monitors for file system changes and notifies
throwing
events.
I think that'd definitely be a worthy addition.
I'm curious how you see the interface. Perhaps something inspired by ASIO?
In fact, I think that something for ASIO already exists. See this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.asio.user/2699/
The current version supports Windows (based on IOCP) and Linux (based on inotify) and can be found at <http://www.highscore.de/boost/dir_monitor.zip>. As the directory monitor was released under the Boost Software License everyone is invited to add support for new platforms (the architecture should be self-explanatory; if not ask me :). Boris