UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hello Experts,

I am working on a software that has network client-server architecture. I need to have a mechanism that notifies me upon change of dhcp address change locally or at remote machine. Windows have IP Helper APIs to get address change notification. Is there something similar in Unix? Is there any API that can be used to register for address change event notification in a C/C++ program?

I have heard about DHCP client event hook scripts but i prefer not using a standard script for notification, but get notifications directly to my program.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks and Best Regards.
Gajendra Sharma

"Unix" is a wide and varied term.

Which particular OS/kernel are you using?

Vague information is as useless as no information.

Thanks for your response. I have multiple Unix flavours to support e.g. RH Linux, Suse Linux, Solaris, AIX.

Shall i provide more details?

Thanks.
Gajendra

There is no direct equivalant to the Microsoft Windows eventing model (of which notifications are a part of) on any Unix or GNU/Linux OS.

WaitForSingleObject, WaitForMultipleObjects and similar eventing APIs is one of the more difficult areas to recode when porting an application from Microsoft Windows to Unix or GNU/Linux.