Evgeny Vyalyy
Reputation: 33
Detecting file opening in Linux
I'm writing a daemon, monitoring user activity on Linux. Is there any way to detect opening arbitrary file by arbitrary process? Preferred language is Python/C/C++
Upvotes: 3
Views: 95
Answers (1)
vartec
Reputation: 134631
Linux has group of inotify system calls.
There is a Python wrapper for these called pyinotify.
Upvotes: 1
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