Re: File system watcher/monitoring

On 02/14/2013 03:03 PM, Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa wrote:

Hi internal, A missing feature in PHP is a file system watcher/monitoring available 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 —and sudo—, 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. By now, if we didn't use these solutions, we should use a finder (thanks to RecursiveIteratorIterator and DirectoryIterator in SPL) that runs every n seconds and compute a diff with the previous run. This solution works fine for a small set of files but it can slow for a big one. This is just a tricky solution, not a proper one. Possible domains where it is needed: test, CI, log, file transfering, security etc. Is it possible to have such a feature landing in PHP (core if karma allows it)? or do you want such a feature? Best regards :-). Ivan,

Everzet has started to build a client side solution[1] Hopefuly he will have time to update the PR with what is remaining to do soon[2] [1] https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/4605 [2] https://twitter.com/everzet/status/302381248620408832 Cheers, Victor