How to write a daemon program to monitor symbolic links?

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.1942.1256325954.2807.python-list at python.org>,
Peng Yu  <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I'm thinking of writing a daemon program which will build a database
>on all the symbolic links that point to any files. Later on, whenever
>I change or remove any file or symbolic link, I'll will notify the
>daemon process the changes. By keeping this daemon process running, I
>can quickly figure out what symbolic links are pointing to any give
>file.
>
>But I have never make a daemon program like this in python. Could
>somebody point me what packages I need in order to make a daemon
>process like this? Thank you!

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