To be honest, I just pinched the logic from CA Autosys, the scheduling tool that the old warehouse uses. Linux::Inotify looks much more elegant, but we need to work across SAMBA and NFS, and as Andrew points out it may not work for us.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 July 2010 13:04, Grant McLean wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Also, you were talking about your strategy for watching an incoming<br>
directory and checking when a file stabilises (no writes for 'n'<br>
seconds). I recently implemented a directory watching daemon using the<br>
Linux::Inotify module. The cool thing about that module is it allows<br>
fine-grained control over the events you're interested in.<br>
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So in my case I subscribed to 'IN_CLOSE' and 'IN_MOVED_TO' events which<br>
means I only get notified when a file is closed (ie: the client has<br>
finished writing) or renamed. You'd need to try it out to see how it<br>
interacts with SAMBA but it might be a useful solution.<br>
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