Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:58:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "A. Sinan Unur" X-Sender: unursinan AT ficus DOT frogspace DOT net To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com cc: "A. Sinan Unur" , djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: file system change notification In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > On 26 Aug 2001, A. Sinan Unur wrote: > Alas, AFAIK there's no way for a DOS program to plug itself into the > Windows file operations chain. I don't know about any functionality > which could allow a DOS program to register a callback for > file-oriented activities. I guess I wasn't clear. I am not interested in plugging into the Windows file operations chain. Rather, I am curious about if I can create similar functionality by chaining into DOS interrupts even when not running under Windows. I think it is easier to go with the Windows solution and use cygwin for this task. > You could, of course, write a VxD that would export such a service, > but I doubt that you had that in mind when you asked your question. you are right :) > What exactly do you want to do in this program? That is, assuming you > know some file was created or deleted, what would the program do with > that info? (It's possible that the general problem cannot be solved > with DJGPP, but some specific problem can.) I have a bunch of programs running on different machines generating data on a network drive. I wanted a program on a "monitor" computer to watch these data files, and process them when they were done. Thanks for your response. Sinan. -- ---------------------------------------------------------- A. Sinan Unur mailto:sinan AT unur DOT com http://unur.com/sinan/