Ed Greshko wrote:
Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 04Jan2008 19:26, Jeffrey Ross <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
is it possible to monitor a file system to see what files have been open
(and closed), and if so, how?
The device in this case would be a USB CD-rom drive and the filesystem
would be the disk in it.
The inotify system may do the trick for you. See "man 7 inotify" for details.
I expect there must be some handy utilities around that use it.
Would that really work? I was under the impression that inotify was using
file system attributes and since a CD is read-only the attributes can't be
updated/modified.
Ed
knowing that it was only one process (and maybe its children) that would
be accessing the drive I took a different tact, instead I use "strace -f
-o /tmp/outfile -e trace=file <program name>"
that got me the output I was looking for.
Thanks!
Jeff
