From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: file system change notification
Date: 28 Aug 2001 10:24:37 GMT
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A. Sinan Unur <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu> wrote:
[...]

> 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 would be surprised if even that Windows-based technique would work
if you ran it on any other but the network drive's serving machine.
IOW, I doubt that this monitoring hook provided by Windows works
across the network --- the network load and filesystem latency induced
by it would be too bad.  So unless your file server is a DOS machine
(which I dearly hope it isn't :-), there would not even be a remote
possibility of getting this to work in real DOS.

In a nutshell: monitoring the filesystem is not the proper way of
handling this, IMHO. Let the clients inform the master by RPC or
whatever other network-transparent message passing method you can come
up with.  What the heck, it might even be optimal to just have the
client sent automatized EMails...

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.