From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 15 23:20:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0BBF106566B for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:20:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (marcuscom-pt.tunnel.tserv1.fmt.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:ffff::1279]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B0DB8FC0A for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:20:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:2464::4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:2464::4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n3FNLFn0063411; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:21:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: barbara In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-F2FXQl34M3P3hnWAgID4" Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:20:28 -0400 Message-Id: <1239837628.11660.17.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.0 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com Cc: gnome Subject: Re: How to exclude directories from gamin? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:20:27 -0000 --=-F2FXQl34M3P3hnWAgID4 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 23:03 +0200, barbara wrote: > > Mike Harding wrote: > > > That page (http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/config.html) doesn't > > > tell how to exclude directories, only how to select polling or > > > notification. Grrr! > >=20 > > The secret is to use polling on paths you don't want to lock. The > > problem with FreeBSD's kqueue system is that it requires the > > file/directory to be open in order to monitor it. If you disable kerne= l > > notification for certain paths, and opt for polling, then the files do > > not need to be opened, and thus they will not prevent umount from worki= ng. > >=20 > > Joe > >=20 >=20 >=20 > So the only "useful" method on FreeBSD should be poll, is it correct? > I mean, the one that should be used. No. Kernel notification is useful for static directories (e.g. your home directory). >=20 > But this is what I've got from the gamin debug: > ... > Dumping mounted file systems > ufs filesystem mounted at /mnt/aux2 > ufs filesystem mounted at /mnt/aux1 > ... > Dumping file system properties > ... > fstype ufs monitor kernel poll timeout 0 > ... >=20 > So it seems poll is used for /mnt/aux1 and /mnt/aux2 which are ufs fs. > Nevertheless I'm unable to umount them. Are you sure that it's gam_server that's keeping then in use? Joe >=20 >=20 > Regards > Barbara >=20 >=20 >=20 --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-F2FXQl34M3P3hnWAgID4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAknma7oACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4fLJQCgq29CKjbqsGmcYVKDlB547DSF xUIAn2dhI+zjmF1j+u8QXx0npa5vbIXE =kXWc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-F2FXQl34M3P3hnWAgID4--