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NAME

Win32::FileNotify - Monitor file changes

SYNOPSIS

use Win32::FileNotify;

my $file = './test.txt';
my $notify = Win32::FileNotify->new( $file );
$notify->wait;

print $file, " wurde veraendert\n";

DESCRIPTION

This is a wrapper around Win32::ChangeNotify. With Win32::FileNotify you can monitor one specific file and you get notified when the file has changed.

METHODS

new

my $filename = '/path/to/file.txt';
$notify = Win32::FileNotify->new( $filename );

creates a new object for the given file.

wait

$notify->wait;

See Win32::IPC

SEE ALSO

Win32::ChangeNotify

AUTHOR

Renee Baecker, <module@renee-baecker.de>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2007 - 2008 by Renee Baecker

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.