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Re: [SLUG] File open signals???

To: John Francis <jfrancis@nospam.mail.usyd.edu.au>, slug@nospam.slug.org.au
Subject: Re: [SLUG] File open signals???
From: chesty <chesty@nospam.zip.com.au>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 16:32:09 +1000
In-Reply-To: <390E2447.B1229E24@nospam.mail.usyd.edu.au>; from jfrancis@nospam.mail.usyd.edu.au on Tue, May 02, 2000 at 10:41:43AM +1000
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On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 10:41:43AM +1000, John Francis wrote:
> Is there a way to get the kernel to send me a signal when a particular
> file is opened/closed.  

Don't know about that, theres a few random signature generates
that makes .signature a named pipe, you can then be notified
when its read.

> What i would like to do is have a program
> running that waits for my .signature file to be opened and closed and
> then proceed to replace the contents of that file.

If you want to "cheat", have a look at
http://www.caliban.org/linux_signature.html, or search freshmeat.

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	chesty

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