Re: File system watcher/monitoring

2013/2/15 Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa <ivan.enderlin@hoa-project.net> > Hi Stas, > > > On 14/02/13 22:37, Stas Malyshev wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> 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. >>> >> I think it'd be great to have a library with unified interface and an >> extension that uses it. However, I'm not sure if these libraries are >> useful in common php use case - short-lived requests. Could I get the >> changes since the last request? Or is it useful only for long-running >> persistent processes? >> > It is only useful for long-running processes. > > For example when you are writting tests: at each modifications, you would > like to re-run or re-generate tests. In this case, you have a daemon that > watches files changes and executes a command when needed. > Why do you need PHP for this? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3283228/bash-execute-script-on-file-save#answer-3283390 > > Another more concrete example is with EventSource [1]. The browser > maintains opened a connection and the server writes on this connection > step-by-step (or… chunk-by-chunk since it uses the chunk feature of > HTTP1.1). It is very useful to develop some “realtime-tools”. I made a > video [2] to illustrate (code is here [3]). This is very naive and not > optimized at all, but this is a short POC to show you an interesting > usecase. > > > Is it possible to have such a feature landing in PHP (core if karma >>> allows it)? or do you want such a feature? >>> >> I'm not sure why it has to be in core though. I don't see so far >> anything that requires modifying language core. >> > The core integration was a joke, forget it ;-). > > > Regards. > > [1] > http://www.w3.org/TR/**eventsource/<http://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/> > [2] > https://dl.dropbox.com/u/**26317193/Realtime_edition.webm<https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26317193/Realtime_edition.webm> > [3] > http://paste.hoa-project.net/**9f15189c05ef0961d374fe7e6c70b3** > > b2b27c8b64<http://paste.hoa-project.net/9f15189c05ef0961d374fe7e6c70b3b2b27c8b64> > > > -- > Ivan Enderlin > Developer of Hoa > http://hoa-project.net/ > > PhD. student at DISC/Femto-ST (Vesontio) and INRIA (Cassis) > http://disc.univ-fcomte.fr/ and > http://www.inria.fr/ > > Member of HTML and WebApps Working Group of W3C > http://w3.org/ > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- github.com/KingCrunch