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How to monitor a specific file for changes

Orlin Grigorov
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    - Erik de Castro Lopo
    - Jake Donham
      - Orlin Grigorov
    - Karl Zilles
      - Orlin Grigorov
        
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        Orlin Grigorov
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        Sylvain Le Gall
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From:	Jake Donham <jake.donham@s...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] How to monitor a specific file for changes

On 10/22/07, Orlin Grigorov <ogrigorov@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there something I can use successfully on both Linux and Mac about that?

There is a multiplatform library in OMake that uses whatever mechanism
is available. I don't know what it does on Mac; I think it falls back
to polling  on platforms where nothing else is available.

Jake