On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 06:19:10PM +0100, Martijn van Duren wrote: > Hello misc, > > I recently compiled minidlna to run on my local OBSD based home server. > It runs great by default, but it relies upon inotify to receive > information on filesystem changes. > I really like the program, but it's a nuisance to rescan my multimedia > directories every time I add a new file, so I made an attempt at > implementing kqueue. Compared to inotify I run into two different > problems with kqueue. > 1) It is based upon open file descriptors, so I can't include every > directory I have in my multimedia-collection, because I run out of open > file descriptors. > 2) It only shows that there has been a change in the directory, so I > have to do a full compare of the files in the directory compared to the > entries in the database. > > Both aren't really big problems (the second is merely a nuisance and the > first one can be, albeit somewhat incomplete, worked around by just > including the most current directories). But I would really like to know > if there is alternative API in OpenBSD (and preferably even more > portable then that) that comes closer to Linux' inotify functionality, > or do I just have to make do with kqueue?
A guy wrote a compatibility library that exposes an inotify interface on top of kqueue for NetBSD as part of NetBSD Google Summer of Code 2011 project. https://github.com/dmatveev/libinotify-kqueue Maybe you would find it useful. jirib
