Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 20:32:05 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fam and FreeBSD: we support polling mode only ? Message-ID: <3D78E695.6DA14590@FreeBSD.org> References: <20020906145636.D39212-100000@levais.imp.ch>
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Martin Blapp wrote: > > Hi, > > > As the kqueue paper points out, /dev/imon is less efficient that > > the kqueue equivalent. > > Of course. But it sucks adding kqueue support to all programs which already > use imon support. > > I'll do this now for the fam port. Any other programs out there which use > /dev/imon directly ? > > That means fam will soon support kqueue to monitor files and not use polling > mode anymore. See http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/bsdfam/. It built around kqueue(8) and already has enough functionality to satisfy Nautilus. Unfortunately, I've lost interest to this one, but could give you access to the project if you want to pick it up. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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