Brian Nitz wrote:
> This looks interesting, I always wondered whether things such as gamin
> and libgtop should be implemented using dtrace libraries.
Perhaps it would have been viable as a temporary solution until the real
API went into the kernel, but as a long term plan, it doesn't seem to be
a good idea since DTrace is designed to drop events to prevent system
performance issues, and requires more privilege than you may want your
file indexer to have.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
