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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] File system watcher/monitoring
From: krebs.seb@gmail.com (Sebastian Krebs)

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2013/2/14 Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa <ivan.enderlin@hoa-project.net>

> Hello Julien,
>
>
> On 14/02/13 15:29, Julien Pauli wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa <
>> ivan.enderlin@hoa-project.net> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi internal,
>>>
>>> A missing feature in PHP is a file system watcher/monitoring available
>>> for
>>> almost all platforms. On Linux, we have inotify (available in PHP throu=
gh
>>> pecl/inotify), on Mac OS X, we have /dev/fsevents (not available in PHP=
,
>>> since we need ioctl to do that in pure PHP =97and sudo=97, no C extensi=
on
>>> needed), on FreeBSD, we have FAM, and on Windows, we have
>>> FileSystemWatcher
>>> in .NET. All major platforms have a solution ready to use.
>>>
>>> By now, if we didn't use these solutions, we should use a finder (thank=
s
>>> to RecursiveIteratorIterator and DirectoryIterator in SPL) that runs
>>> every
>>> n seconds and compute a diff with the previous run. This solution works
>>> fine for a small set of files but it can slow for a big one. This is
>>> just a
>>> tricky solution, not a proper one.
>>>
>>> Possible domains where it is needed: test, CI, log, file transfering,
>>> security etc.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to have such a feature landing in PHP (core if karma
>>> allows
>>> it)? or do you want such a feature?
>>>
>>> Best regards :-).
>>>
>>
>> Hello :-)
>>
>> I don't see why we would have such a thing into PHP Core.
>> We are already smooth about the file system accesses with a realpath
>> cache,
>> and users may use different pecl ext if they want to take hand on a lib
>> such as inotify.
>>
> Well ok, forget PHP core, but an extension would be great.


At least for inotify there is an extension, which works quite fine. Never
searched something similar for other OSs.

Regards,
Sebastian


>
>
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>
> PhD. student at DISC/Femto-ST (Vesontio) and INRIA (Cassis)
> http://disc.univ-fcomte.fr/ and http://www.inria.fr/
>
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