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How to monitor a specific file for changes

Orlin Grigorov
- Robert Fischer
- Sylvain Le Gall
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- Erik de Castro Lopo
  - Orlin Grigorov
    - Erik de Castro Lopo
    - Jake Donham
      - Orlin Grigorov
    - Karl Zilles
      - Orlin Grigorov
        
        Dave Benjamin
        
        Orlin Grigorov
      - Richard Jones
        
        Karl Zilles
        
        Sylvain Le Gall
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Date:	-- (:)
From:	Dave Benjamin <dave@r...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] How to monitor a specific file for changes

Orlin Grigorov wrote:
> Using "Unix.stat" works perfectly for my purpose!   On both platforms,
> hurray!    THANK YOU!

You may wish to consider "Unix.LargeFile.stat" if there is the 
possibility that some of these files may be large, since st_size 
contains the file size in bytes. Unix.st_size is an int, whereas 
Unix.LargeFile.st_size is an int64.

Dave