[desktop-discuss] Re: Google Summer of Code

[Brian Nitz]

Darren Kenny wrote:
>
>          o File Monitoring
>                + In OpenSolaris, there is a kernel API called File
>                  Event Mechanism. Unfortunately this still doesn't have
>                  a userland API that could be used by applications or
>                  libraries. Linux and AIX both have inotify to do this,
>                  but OpenSolaris doesn't. This would be an interesting
>                  project to get done and have libfam modified to
>                  support OpenSolaris using this mechanism rather than
>                  polling
Shouldn't it be possible to emulate linux and/or AIX's file event 
mechanism via libdtrace?