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Mac OS X provides several low-level programming interfaces for working with files and directories, such as the kqueue API. In addition to providing file access and statistics, these interfaces can also provide notification when a file is modified or deleted.
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FSMegaInfo (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Prints information about various file system objects; helpful when debugging VFS plug-ins.
 2008-02-25
EmptyFS (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
A very simple VFS plug-in that mounts a volume that is completely empty.
 2006-11-09
MFSLives (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Sample VFS plug-in for the Macintosh File System (MFS) volume format, as used on 400KB floppies.
 2006-11-09
VolumeToBSDNode (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to iterate across all mounted volumes and retrieve their BSD node names.
 2006-10-16
Watcher (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Uses FSEvents to monitor a directory hierarchy to keep track of its total size
 2006-08-04
filesystem_examples (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Collection of command line tools illustrating filesystem features.
 2006-01-10
FileNotification (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
kqueue file notification introduced in 10.3. Notification API to detect file system modifications.
 2005-10-27
MoreIsBetter (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Library providing indispensable wrapers and workarounds for many areas of Mac OS programming.
 2003-10-27