Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:39:16 -0600 From: eculp@encontacto.net To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gamin 0.1.7 Message-ID: <20060208133916.dzyx74skookookk4@mail.encontacto.net> In-Reply-To: <43E9FFAE.5020500@FreeBSD.org> References: <43E9FFAE.5020500@FreeBSD.org>
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Quoting Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>: > In the last days I worked on porting the latest release of gamin > (0.1.7) 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 port may be downloaded for testing from > 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) > out-of-the-box only on Linux with kernel backends (dnotify/inotify). > Polling is broken, kqueue doesn't compile. I fixed all the bugs I > found and tried to make polling and kqueue work flawless. > Internally I replaced the read of the linux /etc/mtab file with a > call to getmntinfo() to know which file system could be monitored by > the kernel and which should be polled. In the latter case the > monitoring job is carried out by the polling backend, in the former > the job is completed by the kqueue backend in the same way is done > actually in the 0.1.5 release. > I did many tests on a 6-STABLE with thousands of monitored dirs/files > on ufs and smbfs file systems to catch any possible bug, but it seems > it's working great. > Unless you will find anything wrong with the port, I'm going to > commit it in the end of the week. Alex, I'm a bit confused. With this port will the fam/gamin conflict with courier still exist or will gamin be used in place of fam? Thanks, ed
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