Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!sdrc!scjones
From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Detecting file creation
Message-ID: <272@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 88 18:36:19 GMT
Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati
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I need to create a program which will process files which get created in a
particular directory.  Each file is deleted after it is processed, so I don't
have to worry about processing a file more than once.  So far the only thing
we have been able to come up with is to continualy search the directory
looking for files to process, but that is quite wasteful of system resources.
What would be better is to have a way of knowing that a new file has been
created in the magic directory, but there doesn't seem to be any way to do
that.  The files are created by lots of different mechanisms, so we can't
have the creator signal the server.  Anyone have any ideas?

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