Re: File size events.
Holger Kiehl <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.c-programming |
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On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, ratheesh k wrote: > I have an application which keep on writing to one file /tmp/rat.txt. > I would like to handle an event when the file size exceed 20kb . How > to get this event ? Is there an event chain , i could register with ? > is there any other easy mechanism ? > See inotify. This will not tell the size, just the event when someone writes to the file. The size you can then get with stat() or fstat(). Holger -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html