I am looking for a way to make a program in C or C++ that detects if there was any files altered, renamed, moved or deleted in a specified directory for Linux systems. Is there a way to do that?
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I am looking for a way to make a program in C or C++ that detects if there was any files altered, renamed, moved or deleted in a specified directory for Linux systems. Is there a way to do that?
You want inotify (and its man page.)