Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 16:26:05 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 214338] devel/glib20: patch: new kqueue() backend for file monitoring Message-ID: <bug-214338-6497-k5CMfldAro@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-214338-6497@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-214338-6497@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D214338 Ting-Wei Lan <lantw44@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |lantw44@gmail.com --- Comment #4 from Ting-Wei Lan <lantw44@gmail.com> --- (In reply to rozhuk.im from comment #0) I opened an upstream bug report for kqueue backend reworking 2 years ago: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D739424 You can regenerate your patch in 'git format-patch' format and upload it th= ere to get feedback from upstream developers. kqueue backend is used by many operating systems, so your code will be tested on other operating system li= ke OpenBSD before it can be accepted by upstream. >From the discussion on IRC we had last year, the reason to have a polling fallback is that kqueue requires a file descriptor to the directory to be monitored, but having an open file descriptor blocks unmount. Linux inotify doesn't have this problem because inotify uses a file path instead of a file descriptor, and Apple Mac allows getting a file descriptor for use in kqueue without blocking unmount by using O_EVTONLY. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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