On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 01:13:44PM +0200, Enrico Sersale wrote: > I'm interested. I was just thinking to use fam for this because it seems to > be available on other platforms besides linux. But I must say that I don't > know either inotify or fam and perhaps using inotify on linux and the old > NSTimer based solution on other systems could be a reasonable compromise... > If you want to help with inotify, I'd be very glad; write me.
Well, it's hard to make a decision. FAM seemed like a good solution 3 years ago as it's (kinda) cross-platorm but its development staled (last version 2003-11-26) and the only known kernel backends are dnotify on linux and imon on irix. Gamin (http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/) is a binary and source code compatible FAM replacement. It can poll, use dnotify and inotify on linux and kqueue on FreeBSD (and maybe OS X ?) but uses glib-2.0 and seems to be abandoned : gnome-vfs doesn't link to it anymore and instead implements its own monitor using inotify... I think I'll give FAM/gamin a try. Philippe -- Normaliser Unix c'est comme pasteuriser le Camembert, L.R _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
