use strict;
  use File::Dependencies;

  my $d = File::Dependencies->new(Files=>['Import.cfg','Export.cfg']);

  while (1) {
    my (@changes) = $d->changed;

    if (@changes) {
      print "$_ was changed\n" for @changes;
      $d->update();
    };
    sleep 60;
  };

##</code><code>##

  use strict;
  use File::Dependencies;
  my $files = File::Dependencies->new(Files=>[values %INC, $0]);

  # We want to restart when any module was changed
  exec $0, @ARGV if $files->changed();

##</code><code>##

package File::Dependencies;

#use 5.006; # shouldn't be necessary
use strict;
use warnings;

require Exporter;

our @ISA = qw(Exporter);
our $VERSION = '0.01';

sub new {
  my ($class, %args) = @_;

  my $method = $args{Method} || "MD5";
  my $files = $args{Files} || [];

  my $self = {
    Defaultmethod => $method,
    Files => {},
  };

  bless $self, $class;

  $self->addfile($_) for @$files;

  return $self;
};

sub adddependency {
  my ($self,$filename,$method) = @_;
  $method ||= $self->{Defaultmethod};

  my $signatureclass = "Dependency::Signature::$method";

  $self->{Files}->{$filename} = $signatureclass->new($filename);
};

sub addfile {
  my ($self,@files) = @_;

  $self->adddependency($_) for @files;
};

sub update {
  my ($self) = @_;

  $_->initialize() for values %{$self->{Files}};
};

sub changed {
  my ($self) = @_;

  return map {$_->{Filename}} grep {$_->changed()} (values %{$self->{Files}});
};

1;

{
  package Dependency::Signature;

  # This is a case where Python would be nicer. With Python, we could have (paraphrased)
  # class Dependency::Signature;
  #       def initialize(self):
  #           self.hash = self.identificate()
  #           return self
  #       def signature(self):
  #           return MD5(self.filename)
  #       def changed(self):
  #           return self.hash != self.signature()
  # and it would work as expected, (almost) regardless of the structure that is returned
  # by self.signature(). This is some DWIMmery that I sometimes miss in Perl.
  # For now, only string comparisions are allowed.

  sub new {
    my ($class,$filename) = @_;

    my $self = {
      Filename => $filename,
    };

    bless $self, $class;

    $self->initialize();

    return $self;
  };

  sub initialize {
    my ($self) = @_;
    $self->{Signature} = $self->signature();
    return $self;
  };

  sub changed {
    my ($self) = @_;
    my $currsig = $self->signature();

    # FIXME: Deep comparision of the two signatures instead of equality !
    # And what's this about string comparisions anyway ?
    if ((ref $currsig) or (ref $self->{Signature})) {
      die "Implementation error in $self : changed() can't handle references (yet) !\n";
      #return $currsig != $self->{Signature};
    } else {
      return $currsig ne $self->{Signature};
    };
  };

  1;
};

{
  package Dependency::Signature::mtime;
  use base 'Dependency::Signature';

  sub signature {
    my ($self) = @_;

    my @stat = stat $self->{Filename} or die "Couldn't stat '$self->{Filename}' : $!";

    return $stat[9];
  };

  1;
};

{
  package Dependency::Signature::MD5;
  use base 'Dependency::Signature';

  use vars qw( $fallback );

  BEGIN {
    eval "use Digest::MD5;";

    if ($@) {
      #print "Falling back on Dependency::Signature::mtime\n";
      $fallback = 1;
    };
  };

  # Fall back on simple mtime check unless MD5 is available :

  sub new {
    my ($class,$filename) = @_;

    if ($fallback) {
      return Dependency::Signature::mtime->new($filename);
    } else {
      return $class->SUPER::new($filename);
    };
  };

  sub signature {
    my ($self) = @_;
    my $result;
    if (-e $self->{Filename} and -r $self->{Filename}) {
      local *F;
      open F, $self->{Filename} or die "Couldn't read from file '$self->{Filename}' : $!";
      $result = Digest::MD5->new()->addfile(*F)->b64digest();
      close F;
    };
    return $result;
  };

  1;
};

1;

__END__

=head1 NAME

File::Dependencies - Perl extension for detection of changed files.

=head1 SYNOPSIS

  use strict;
  use File::Dependencies;

  my $d = File::Dependencies->new(Files=>['Import.cfg','Export.cfg']);

  while (1) {
    my (@changes) = $d->changed;

    if (@changes) {
      print "$_ was changed\n" for @changes;
      $d->update();
    };
    sleep 60;
  };

Second example - a script that knows when any of its modules have changed :

  use File::Dependencies;
  my $files = File::Dependencies->new(Files=>[values %INC, $0]);

  # We want to restart when any module was changed
  exec $0, @ARGV if $files->changed();

=head1 DESCRIPTION

The Dependencies module is intended as a simple method for programs to detect
whether configuration files (or modules they rely on) have changed. There are
currently two methods of change detection implemented, C<mtime> and C<MD5>.
The C<MD5> method will fall back to use timestamps if the C<Digest::MD5> module
cannot be loaded.

=over 4

=item new %ARGS

Creates a new instance. The C<%ARGS> hash has two possible keys,
C<Method>, which denotes the method used for checking as default,
and C<Files>, which takes an array reference to the filenames to
watch.

=item adddependency filename, method

Adds a new file to watch. C<method> is the method (or rather, the
subclass of C<Dependency::Signature>) to use to determine whether
a file has changed or not.

=item addfile LIST

Adds a list of files to watch. The method used for watching is t1he
default method as set in the constructor.

=item update

Updates all signatures to the current state. All pending changes
are discarded.

=item changed

Returns a list of the filenames whose files did change since
the construction or the last call to C<update> (whichever last
occurred).

=back

=head2 Adding new methods for signatures

Adding a new signature method is as simple as creating a new subclass
of C<Dependency::Signature>. See C<Dependency::Signature::MD5> for a simple
example. There is one point of lazyness in the implementation of C<Dependency::Signature>,
the C<check> method can only compare strings instead of arbitrary structures (yes,
there ARE things that are easier in Python than in Perl).

=head2 EXPORT

None by default.

=head1 AUTHOR

Max Maischein, E<lt>corion@informatik.uni-frankfurt.deE<gt>

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<perl>,L<Digest::MD5>.

=cut

##</code><code>##

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$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web