Re: php fam problems

Jay, thank you for your answer! The fact that fam_monitor_directory is non-recursive gives me trouble since I need to monitor a whole tree of directories and files. I could easily traverse all subdirectories and add them to the fam resource with fam_monitor_directory. But unfortunately, the 'file' in the array I get from fam_next_event() contains only the file-basename, not the full path of the file. So I'll never know where in my directory-tree the current file is. And since there might be multiple files with the same basename in different monitored directories, I'm stuck. How can I monitor multiple directories and get to know exactly which file changed? Will I have to create as many fam-resources as I have directories? thank you! ben adler Am Freitag, 6. August 2004 14:40 schrieb Jay Blanchard: > [snip] > I'm trying to use the fam module from cli-php5 with the example code > from > http://de2.php.net/manual/en/ref.fam.php. It works, but when I > copy a > big file into an observed folder, I get a FAMCreated for the file, and > then, while the copying is still in progress, multiple FAMChanged. > > > I want to watch a folder and process the files that are either new or > changed. Currently, I would end up processing a new or changed file n > times, > with n depending on the file's size. I'd like to get ONE FAMCreated for > a > new file AFTER it was completely created and ONE FAMChanged for a file > AFTER a process is done changing it. Is that possible? > [/snip] > > Because the stat of the file changes you will get multiple FAMChanged. > You may have to test for a time since last FAMChanged and wait a > suitable amount of time to take any actions on the file. > > [snip] > Also, when I watch i.e. /mnt, FAM doesn't notify me of events in /mnt's > subdirectories, the monitoring seems to be non-recursive. Can I change > this, or will I have to fam_monitor_directory each directory separately? > [/snip] > > fam_monitor_directory is non-recursive.