.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 4.09 (Pod::Simple 3.35) .\" .\" Standard preamble: .\" ======================================================================== .de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP) .if t .sp .5v .if n .sp .. .de Vb \" Begin verbatim text .ft CW .nf .ne \\$1 .. .de Ve \" End verbatim text .ft R .fi .. .\" Set up some character translations and predefined strings. \*(-- will .\" give an unbreakable dash, \*(PI will give pi, \*(L" will give a left .\" double quote, and \*(R" will give a right double quote. \*(C+ will .\" give a nicer C++. Capital omega is used to do unbreakable dashes and .\" therefore won't be available. \*(C` and \*(C' expand to `' in nroff, .\" nothing in troff, for use with C<>. .tr \(*W- .ds C+ C\v'-.1v'\h'-1p'\s-2+\h'-1p'+\s0\v'.1v'\h'-1p' .ie n \{\ . ds -- \(*W- . ds PI pi . if (\n(.H=4u)&(1m=24u) .ds -- \(*W\h'-12u'\(*W\h'-12u'-\" diablo 10 pitch . if (\n(.H=4u)&(1m=20u) .ds -- \(*W\h'-12u'\(*W\h'-8u'-\" diablo 12 pitch . ds L" "" . ds R" "" . ds C` "" . ds C' "" 'br\} .el\{\ . ds -- \|\(em\| . ds PI \(*p . ds L" `` . ds R" '' . ds C` . ds C' 'br\} .\" .\" Escape single quotes in literal strings from groff's Unicode transform. .ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq .el .ds Aq ' .\" .\" If the F register is >0, we'll generate index entries on stderr for .\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.SS), items (.Ip), and index .\" entries marked with X<> in POD. Of course, you'll have to process the .\" output yourself in some meaningful fashion. .\" .\" Avoid warning from groff about undefined register 'F'. .de IX .. .if !\nF .nr F 0 .if \nF>0 \{\ . de IX . tm Index:\\$1\t\\n%\t"\\$2" .. . if !\nF==2 \{\ . nr % 0 . nr F 2 . \} .\} .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "Filesys::Notify::Simple 3pm" .TH Filesys::Notify::Simple 3pm "2018-03-18" "perl v5.26.1" "User Contributed Perl Documentation" .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l .nh .SH "NAME" Filesys::Notify::Simple \- Simple and dumb file system watcher .SH "SYNOPSIS" .IX Header "SYNOPSIS" .Vb 1 \& use Filesys::Notify::Simple; \& \& my $watcher = Filesys::Notify::Simple\->new([ "." ]); \& $watcher\->wait(sub { \& for my $event (@_) { \& $event\->{path} # full path of the file updated \& } \& }); .Ve .SH "DESCRIPTION" .IX Header "DESCRIPTION" Filesys::Notify::Simple is a simple but unified interface to get notifications of changes to a given filesystem path. It utilizes inotify2 on Linux, fsevents on \s-1OS X,\s0 kqueue on FreeBSD and FindFirstChangeNotification on Windows if they're installed, with a fallback to the full directory scan if they're not available. .PP There are some limitations in this module. If you don't like it, use File::ChangeNotify. .IP "\(bu" 4 There is no file name based filter. Do it in your own code. .IP "\(bu" 4 You can not get types of events (created, updated, deleted). .IP "\(bu" 4 Currently \f(CW\*(C`wait\*(C'\fR method blocks. .PP In return, this module doesn't depend on any non-core modules. Platform specific optimizations with Linux::Inotify2, Mac::FSEvents, Filesys::Notify::KQueue and Win32::ChangeNotify are truely optional. .PP \&\s-1NOTE:\s0 Using Win32::ChangeNotify may put additional limitations. .IP "\(bu" 4 Win32::ChangeNotify uses FindFirstChangeNotificationA so that Unicode characters can not be handled. On cygwin (1.7 or later), Unicode characters should be able to be handled when Win32::ChangeNotify is not used. .IP "\(bu" 4 If more than 64 directories are included under the specified paths, an error occurrs. .SH "AUTHOR" .IX Header "AUTHOR" Tatsuhiko Miyagawa .SH "LICENSE" .IX Header "LICENSE" This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. .SH "SEE ALSO" .IX Header "SEE ALSO" File::ChangeNotify Mac::FSEvents Linux::Inotify2 Filesys::Notify::KQueue Win32::ChangeNotify