Shell Programming and Scripting

Please explain what do you mean by "lakhs"

Sorry for my regional language.

lakh (or lac) means 100 thousand (100,000).


Thanks
Prvn

shamrock: that's why I put in the wiki link anyway ...

prvnrk: it's probably not so simple as to just compile the thing on Solaris, because it depends on the availability of various system calls and other pieces of infrastructure. The one I was thinking of is related to dbus but I can't recall its name. Here's another one: Monitor Linux file system events with inotify

Googling for "solaris dnotify" mainly brings up links discussing how it's not available, but I didn't look very closely; maybe you can find something similar. Actually, "solaris inotify" brings up some rather promising hits; look at Summer of Code - Genunix and UNIX man pages : inotify (7) which says the following:

Edit: Hmm, I guess /dev/poll is not what you want. The Summer of Code link takes you to a thread where they discuss a possible future mechanism ("future" relative to 2006; we can only speculate what happened then ...) so things are not so promising. One of the messages says you have the basic kernel support but it should be exposed to userland. Here's another one for you: Nabble - Gnome - Lib - Gamin - General - Try to port gamin to Solaris

I had this problem of using lakhs instead of "K" or "M" - that turned out to be a real fun for others in a meeting. This happened few years ago when I was into this industry for the first time.

We need to use international attributes all the time.

I dont mean to offend anybody just thought of sharing this.

We can kind of tackle this problem.

There are 2 approaches to do this.

1) Use a book keeping file which maintains a list of filenames and its status, whether its processed or not which would indicate indirectly whether its a new file or not

2) much more easier way use a table and populate the table accordingly with the filename and the status.

Both are same but based on the number of files you are handling and the need for book keeping you need to make a call for the option

Thank you Era.

I tried dnotify, inotify and FAM on Solaris but could not setup successfully. All these are working just great on Linux.

As I could not get any info on using /dev/poll on Solaris, i did not try it out yet.


Thanks
Prvn

Could you hack UFS to provide a suitable hook directly? Sounds tacky but it might not even be all that hard (but if this is an important production system, management approval might be a tough issue).