From: "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: file system change notification
Date: 28 Aug 2001 02:43:54 GMT
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote in
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> A. Sinan Unur <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu> wrote:
> 
>> I can do this in Windows using  the code snippet included at the
>> bottom of this post. However, I would like to use djgpp. I am assuming
>> there is no similar API in the libraries, and hence I should chain
>> some DOS interrupts. (I could sit in a tight loop reading directory
>> contents but I could miss some creations/deletions if they happen
>> rapidly). 
> 
> I have serious doubts that DJGPP would be the right tool for this
> particular task.  It may even be completely impossible, depending upon
> the type of environment you're targetting.

Agreed. To clarify, what I have are a number of computers where a number of 
participants in an experiment will be making decisions. These decisions 
generate data, and those data get saved on a network drive. So I wanted to 
have a program that monitored this directory for new data files.

I have what I need under windows, and have code running compiled with 
cygwin. I was just curious if there was a possibility I could do a similar 
thing in DOS. This would have served as a way of increasing my 
understanding of chaining interrupts and other related matters.

All in all, that does not seem practical for all the reasons you and Eli 
have mentioned.

Thanks for your comments.

Sinan.

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