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Hi,

I'm relatively new to programming and would like to know how to suspend a c++ program until another program has created a certain file in linux. While it is waiting it needs to be using a minimal amount of processing power.

Hope that made sense?

Cheers,
Andy

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inotify is what you are looking for.

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