Today I had to implement a service that used directory notification to watch for changes in a directory and then handle each change by migrating it to another location. I went back to my previous post about directory notification and used some of the code there to implement what I needed. Unfortunately, the code in that post for processing the returned data is not quite right. It skips that last entry in the returned buffer, which in practice means it skips most of the entries, since it is most common for there to be a single entry in the buffer.

Following is a code segment that processes the entries correctly.
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