Platform-agnostic way to monitor filesystem events

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I'm currently developing a C++ application which should monitor the file system to reindex a set of files when they change. I am currently using Linux' inotify system, but would like the application to be as broadly portable to other systems as possible.

Do you know of high-level, portable filesystem monitoring libraries, which would work at least on Linux and Mac OSX? (and have C or C++ bindings?)

Maybe `boost::filesystem`? I didn't really check for this specific functionality. — Siyuan Ren, Sep 10 '13 at 08:27
@C.R. thanks, but it looks like boost::filesystem only helps for common filesystem manipulations (manipulate paths, list directories, ...) It doesn't seem to monitor events. — François Févotte, Sep 10 '13 at 12:03

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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There is Qt with QFileSystemWatcher

QFileSystemWatcher Class

The QFileSystemWatcher class provides an interface for monitoring files and directories for modifications. More...

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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Thanks. I'm usually not a big fan of Qt, but I'll try it. – François Févotte Sep 11 '13 at 20:52

Platform-agnostic way to monitor filesystem events

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