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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:29:56 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] File system watcher/monitoring
From: krebs.seb@gmail.com (Sebastian Krebs)

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2013/2/15 Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa <ivan.enderlin@hoa-project.net>

> On 15/02/13 14:20, Sebastian Krebs wrote:
>
>> 2013/2/15 Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa <ivan.enderlin@hoa-project.net**>
>>
>>  Hi Stas,
>>>
>>>
>>> On 14/02/13 22:37, Stas Malyshev wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hi!
>>>>
>>>>   A missing feature in PHP is a file system watcher/monitoring availab=
le
>>>>
>>>>> for almost all platforms. On Linux, we have inotify (available in PHP
>>>>> through 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
>>>>> extension needed), on FreeBSD, we have FAM, and on Windows, we have
>>>>> FileSystemWatcher in .NET. All major platforms have a solution ready =
to
>>>>> use.
>>>>>
>>>>>  I think it'd be great to have a library with unified interface and a=
n
>>>> extension that uses it. However, I'm not sure if these libraries are
>>>> useful in common php use case - short-lived requests. Could I get the
>>>> changes since the last request? Or is it useful only for long-running
>>>> persistent processes?
>>>>
>>>>  It is only useful for long-running processes.
>>>
>>> For example when you are writting tests: at each modifications, you wou=
ld
>>> like to re-run or re-generate tests. In this case, you have a daemon th=
at
>>> watches files changes and executes a command when needed.
>>>
>>>  Why do you need PHP for this?
>> http://stackoverflow.com/**questions/3283228/bash-**
>> execute-script-on-file-save#**answer-3283390<http://stackoverflow.com/qu=
estions/3283228/bash-execute-script-on-file-save#answer-3283390>
>>
> I don't understand your point.


For the use-case you described here a PHP-implementation is not required,
because you can use the system-tools to invoke PHPUnit. In fact you don't
need a daemon at all ;)


>
>
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>
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