Method and apparatus for file change notification

Details Method and apparatus for file change notification Method and apparatus for file change notification

1995-10-06

1998-04-28

Amsbury, Wayne

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

707203, 707205, G06F 1730

Patent

active

057459037

ABSTRACT:
A file change notification method and apparatus is disclosed which is efficient, simple and reliable. The invention utilizes a system call to notify a kernel of file modification events on files of interest. Upon occurrence of any file modification event, a signal is transmitted by a kernel to notify a calling process that such an event occurred. The invention further utilizes the system call to retrieve names of modified files of interest. The names are retrieved and stored in a predetermined buffer. Additionally, the present invention indicates whether each name of the modified files of interest has been retrieve by specifying a predetermined flag value.

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