Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 01:53:28 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: gamin 0.1.7 Message-ID: <1139468008.54060.5.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <43E9FFAE.5020500@FreeBSD.org> References: <43E9FFAE.5020500@FreeBSD.org>
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--=-2RD4kLQqlqslCgE6Ts1h Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 15:26 +0100, Alex Dupre wrote: > In the last days I worked on porting the latest release of gamin (0.1.7)=20 > to FreeBSD (and cygwin, too, but this is for another mailing list ;-)). > If you don't want to read more, the result was successfully and the new=20 > port may be downloaded for testing from=20 > http://www.alexdupre.com/gamin.tar.gz. > If you are interested in porting work and changed internals go ahead. > The 0.1.7 release works (with about the same bugs of 0.1.5)=20 > out-of-the-box only on Linux with kernel backends (dnotify/inotify).=20 > Polling is broken, kqueue doesn't compile. I fixed all the bugs I found=20 > and tried to make polling and kqueue work flawless. > Internally I replaced the read of the linux /etc/mtab file with a call=20 > to getmntinfo() to know which file system could be monitored by the=20 > kernel and which should be polled. In the latter case the monitoring job=20 > is carried out by the polling backend, in the former the job is=20 > completed by the kqueue backend in the same way is done actually in the=20 > 0.1.5 release. > I did many tests on a 6-STABLE with thousands of monitored dirs/files on=20 > ufs and smbfs file systems to catch any possible bug, but it seems it's=20 > working great. > Unless you will find anything wrong with the port, I'm going to commit=20 > it in the end of the week. I committed this with a few changes. Someone using NFS along with gamin might want to validate whether kqueue on NFS is working well. The same goes for smbfs, msdosfs, and ext2fs. Joe --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-2RD4kLQqlqslCgE6Ts1h Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBD6ubob2iPiv4Uz4cRAscbAJ9tl6hkyNbGYjXbSrd7dN+2EnGR8QCeJ6Fd 1ngZw2jwwHuVjXYp78kayu4= =C/fy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-2RD4kLQqlqslCgE6Ts1h--
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