Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/08/29/02:45:13
A. Sinan Unur <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu> wrote:
[...]
> Agreed. To clarify, what I have are a number of computers where a number of
> participants in an experiment will be making decisions. These decisions
> generate data, and those data get saved on a network drive. So I wanted to
> have a program that monitored this directory for new data files.
I would be surprised if even that Windows-based technique would work
if you ran it on any other but the network drive's serving machine.
IOW, I doubt that this monitoring hook provided by Windows works
across the network --- the network load and filesystem latency induced
by it would be too bad. So unless your file server is a DOS machine
(which I dearly hope it isn't :-), there would not even be a remote
possibility of getting this to work in real DOS.
In a nutshell: monitoring the filesystem is not the proper way of
handling this, IMHO. Let the clients inform the master by RPC or
whatever other network-transparent message passing method you can come
up with. What the heck, it might even be optimal to just have the
client sent automatized EMails...
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