About inotify
inotify is an inode-based filesystem notification technology. It provides possibility to simply monitor various events on files in filesystems. It is a very much powerful replacement of (obsolete) dnotify. inotify brings a comfortable way how to manage files used in your applications.
inotify can be used for such tasks:
- detecting changes in files and directories (e.g. configuration files, mail directories)
- guarding critical files and their eventual automatic recovery
- file usage statistics and similar purposes
- automatic upload handling
- monitoring installations outside of packaging systems
- automatic on-change backup and/or versioning
- reflecting changes to search databases
There is much more that can be done using inotify. Switch your fantasy on and incorporate inotify to your application the best way.