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Subject: Re: Does cygwin have an 'autorun' utility/package?
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 12:59:55 -0500
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inotify is a POSIX library that would help meet the need.
It apparently has not been ported to Cygwin as a regular
package, though Windows has the necessary underlying ability.

However, this suggests that you can fairly easily build a
program to help:

https://github.com/thekid/inotify-win

It seems to build and work reasonably well.

Another angle is this Qt library (though I am not sure if it
works under Cygwin):

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qfilesystemwatcher.html

Best - Eliot Moss

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