Filesys::Notify::Simple(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			      Filesys::Notify::Simple(3pm)

NAME

       Filesys::Notify::Simple - Simple and dumb file system watcher

SYNOPSIS

	 use Filesys::Notify::Simple;

	 my $watcher = Filesys::Notify::Simple->new([ "." ]);
	 $watcher->wait(sub {
	     for my $event (@_) {
		 $event->{path} # full path of the file updated
	     }
	 });

DESCRIPTION

       Filesys::Notify::Simple is a simple but unified interface to get notifications of changes to a given filesystem path. It utilizes inotify2
       on Linux and fsevents on OS X if they're installed, with a fallback to the full directory scan if they're not available.

       There are some limitations in this module. If you don't like it, use File::ChangeNotify.

       o   There is no file name based filter. Do it in your own code.

       o   You can not get types of events (created, updated, deleted).

       o   Currently "wait" method blocks.

       In return, this module doesn't depend on any non-core modules. Platform specific optimizations with Linux::Inotify2 and Mac::FSEvents are
       truely optional.

AUTHOR

       Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net>

LICENSE

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       File::ChangeNotify Mac::FSEvents Linux::Inotify2

perl v5.12.4							    2011-09-27					      Filesys::Notify::Simple(3pm)