Re: Monitor opened files

FROM : Sherm Pendley
DATE : Sun Apr 29 13:23:57 2007

On Apr 29, 2007, at 7:08 AM, Philip Q wrote:

> On 29/04/07, Daniel <daniel.<email_removed>> wrote:

>> it is the first time I work with Cocoa and I wanted to know if there
>> is a way to launch a second application from the running one (and for
>> that I have found something) _and_ additionally being able to montior
>> this process/application in such a way to know exactly which file it
>> has opened for writing, which one he has created.
>>

>
> Creating a child process is pretty simple using NSTask (although, is
> there a specific reason you want to use a child process and not a
> thread?).
>
> However, getting a list of the open files is not a trivial task


Just use the aforementioned simple NSTask to run 'lsof'. :-)

Or, if you know *where* the files will be opened, just watch that 
directory with kqueue.

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