monitoring a directory

Guy Robinson guy at NOSPAM.r-e-d.co.nz
Wed Mar 24 20:31:42 EST 2004


dw wrote:

> Guy Robinson wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> What would be the most efficient or 'clever' way to monitor a 
>> directory for file additions/ modifications on windows?
>>
>> Currently I'm looping through the directory with a 1 sec delay. But 
>> doesn't seem that clever.
>>
>> Guy
> 
> 
> This page might give you some hints:
> 
> http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml
> 
> -Don
Cheers Don, looks like I can just read the text file.

Guy



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