Re: [Inotify-tools] inotifywait: run a command option

[Allen S. R. <as...@uf...>]

On 11/16/2012 03:25 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote:


> To avoid the race condition the following needs to happen:
>   Establish wait.
>   Then finish sending data from script A to script B.

Exactly;  Establish the wait, finish what you're doing, and then act on 
the output.

In perl idiom:

$foo = new FileHandle("inotifywait -whateveroptions |");

&Finish_sending_data();

and then wait for inotify's output.


- Allen S. Rout