Re: File system watcher/monitoring

> There are native APIs for that (read: non .net, aka C) on Windows Well aware of that. The EXE does use the Win32 API, not a .NET wrapper. I've used that API ever since it's been documented. > using an external process for this purpose would be horrible, in all > possible ways. Well, yeah, that's my very point... having the engine/extension do this is the proper direction (I only use this hack to check completion of some scheduled tasks, it's all private). Stas says typical PHP apps don't have a need for file system hooks. Sure, long-polling may not be good with thread-per-process webservers, but those aren't the only PHP environments in the wild. Once you accept that people already roll out long-polling back ends with PHP, the next step is to minimize the check-sleep-loop hackery and offer true event-driven alternatives when possible. Nothing I'm saying is controversial. -- Sandy