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by notacoward 4763 days ago
http://people.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/ has been doing this for ages, with inotify on Linux and kqueue on BSD. It's already packaged and available - indeed, often required - on many distributions. Facebook has done some neat stuff here, but providing a portable file-change-notification library isn't novel.