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mrkaspa
mrkaspa

Reputation: 75

Is there a way to watch for changes some files inside a directory?

I want to watch for changes in some files and do something on them when this happens

Upvotes: 0

Views: 322

Answers (1)

Jeffrey Scofield
Jeffrey Scofield

Reputation: 66823

You don't mention what platform you want this to work on. Doing this in a nice way (without polling) has not been standardized across platforms (the way that reading and writing files has). So there's no simple platform-independent solution using just standard OCaml libraries.

There are individual mechanisms for particular platforms. By googling I found kqueue for BSD and macOS, inotify for Linux. If you happen to be on Linux, there are inotify wrappers in OPAM: https://opam.ocaml.org/packages/inotify/

Upvotes: 3

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