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Thanks! &nbsp;That gave me a starting point to solve my issue. For anyone else going down this road, in addition to FNSubscribe, OS X has the kqueue interface which also provides some of this information.<br />
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Thanks for the quick response.
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Thanks!  That gave me a starting point to solve my issue. For anyone else going down this road, in addition to FNSubscribe, OS X has the kqueue interface which also provides some of this information.

Thanks for the quick response.

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Does OS X have an easy OS hook to detect file changes in the filesystem?<br />
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What I need is a way to detect when a user writes to a filesystem in real time - as you might have in a virus scanner that needs to scan any changes that get written to the filesystem.<br />
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Does OS X have an easy OS hook to detect file changes in the filesystem?

What I need is a way to detect when a user writes to a filesystem in real time - as you might have in a virus scanner that needs to scan any changes that get written to the filesystem.



Mac File Change Event

Kernel and system programming is the process of creating the software necessary for a computer or device to function and operate other programs. Some operating systems (such as Microsoft Windows) are proprietary, but others, such as the various Linux distributions, are open source.