Hi, I was wondering how i can detect all changes within a folder in the
filesystem (renaming, creating new file, moving file). I have source code
from the net which uses the findfirstchangenotification from kernel32.dll to
get a notification back from the os, however, it can only detect files that
have been written to the hard drive. Which means that if the file is cached,
then a notification would not occur. So if a small file gets moved into the
directory (for example, a file of 1K in size), then a notification will not
occur because that file was cached.
It would be great iIf anyone can point me in the right direction, I'm a
junior programmer, so I don't know much about embedded programming, thank
you.

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| Hi, I was wondering how i can detect all changes within a folder in the
| filesystem (renaming, creating new file, moving file). I have source code
| from the net which uses the findfirstchangenotification from kernel32.dll
to
| get a notification back from the os, however, it can only detect files
that
| have been written to the hard drive. Which means that if the file is
cached,
| then a notification would not occur. So if a small file gets moved into
the
| directory (for example, a file of 1K in size), then a notification will
not
| occur because that file was cached.
| It would be great iIf anyone can point me in the right direction, I'm a
| junior programmer, so I don't know much about embedded programming, thank
| you.
|
|
|
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