Win32::FileNotify - Monitor file changes

  use Win32::FileNotify;

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

  print $file, " wurde veraendert\n";

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.

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

creates a new object for the given file.

  $notify->wait;

See Win32::IPC

Win32::ChangeNotify

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

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.