Re: File size events.

Holger Kiehl <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-c-programming
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
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
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