Re: Native (small) inotifywait-like tool?

Vadim Goncharov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 5 Aug 2026 16:43:12 +0000 (UTC)
"Bjoern A. Zeeb" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> do we have a native tool (can be way simpler) like inotifywait?
> 
> I am essentially looking for something which will trigger an action when a
> file changes; the action could also be in a shell script so "wait" in a shell
> script look would be acceptable.
> 
> Problem is that I am very space contraint and don't want to pull in more
> libraries etc. when a few kB would already do.
> 
> I assume soemthing like the example in kqueue(2) will almost do?

sysutils/wait_on is for scripts and already based on kqueue

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