When a file is created where does unix store the information about the file?

Question

If a file were added to a directory how could I find out in Real Time in unix?

Answer 1

It depends on the file-system in use (ext2, reiser, etc).

See source for more info.

In windows programming, C# has a directory-watcher object that will tell you when a file is added.. maybe there's a linux equivalent? Or maybe you could use Mono (.Net for Linux), you may be able to use the FileWatcher class.