This is not necessarily the current version of this TIP.This is not necessarily the current version of this TIP.
| TIP: | 10000 |
| Title: | Dummy Proposal for Testing Editing Interfaces |
| Version: | $Revision: 1.192 $ |
| Authors: |
Don Porter <dgp at users dot sourceforge dot net> Andreas Kupries <a dot kupries at westend dot com> Richard Suchenwirth <richard dot suchenwirth at kst dot siemens dot de> Kevin B KENNY <kennykb at acm dot org> Jeff Hobbs <hobbs at users dot sourceforge dot net> Vince Darley <vincentdarley at users dot sourceforge dot net> Fabrice Pardo <Fabrice dot Pardo at l2m dot cnrs dot fr> Joe Mistachkin <joe at mistachkin dot com> Donal K. Fellows <donal dot k dot fellows at manchester dot ac dot uk> Mark Janssen <mpc dot janssen at gmail dot com> Reinhard Max <max at tclers dot tk> |
| State: | Draft |
| Type: | Informative |
| Vote: | Pending |
| Created: | Sunday, 03 December 2000 |
This proposal has no content. It exists only to provide a document on which testing of and practice using of the TIP editing interfaces can take place.
This TIP proposes to add capabilities for monitoring changes in the file system to the Tcl core.
Most if not all platforms supported by Tcl today allow user space processes to monitor the file system for certain changes such as the creation, deletion, alteration or renaming of files.
Unfortunately there is no unique cross-platform API for this, so a Tcl core feature will have to be backed by a series of platform-dependent implementations and possibly a fallback for platforms that don't have these monitoring capabilities or instances on which they have been disabled.
The currently known native APIs are (list to be extended): * Linux: inotify[1] * BSD: kqueue[2] * Mac OS X: FSEvents[3]
This is not necessarily the current version of this TIP.