Re: [AD] File system watcher API

[AJ <ajbaxter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

its not as reliably as you think.
different versions of Windows will update changes at different rates.
users can change this change rate also.

i build a few things around these APIs, and found them to be unreliable.

even trying to document what this function does will be a minefield of  
"if this, then that except when this is that and ..."



On 4/01/2012 11:37 PM, David Capello wrote:
> Is there someone working in a "file system watcher" API for Allegro 5?
>
> For Windows we could use this the ReadDirectoryChangesW function:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365465(VS.85).aspx 
> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365465%28VS.85%29.aspx>
>
> If no body is working on it, I could write the API and the Windows
> implementation. Should this be part of the library or an addon?
> Does physfs support this?
>
>
>
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