Re: Lua implementation of the inotify API?

[William Ahern <william@...>]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 08:55:32PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> On 5/1/2013 at GoLUG (http://www.golug.org/), I'm doing a presentation
> on inotify. I'll be teaching the inotify foundation in C, just like
> everyone else, but at the end I'm going to do a dog and pony show with
> inotifywait, inotifywatch, pyinotify, and any kind of Lua
> implementation there is.
> 
> What are some good inotify Lua libraries that work with 5.2?
> 

Not sure if it's any good, but my cqueues library supports Linux inotify
within it's notify submodule. On BSD it uses kqueue's EVFILT_VNODE and on
Solaris the PORT_SOURCE_FILE mechanism.

	http://25thandclement.com/~william/projects/cqueues.html

Because EVFILT_VNODE works differently than inotify or PORT_SOURCE_FILE, the
API requires explicitly requesting for which files you want notifications,
other than the anchoring directory. For an example of how the Lua API works,
see examples/notify.lua in the project tree. The API is also documented in
the manual.