Sending it again.. my reply got lost...
I am the person working on this feature. Briefly, the File Events Notification(FEN) facility provides means to monitor a file or directory for changes. The API is based on the event ports(the event notification framework) that was introduced in Solaris 10. The FEN facility will be added as an event source to the event notification framework. It is similar to FAM(SGI)/Gamin. But from what I know, FAM & Gamin, are user land implementations as a file monitoring services. They in turn use kernel file monitoring mechanisms like 'kqueues'(BSD), 'inotify'(on Linux) and 'imon'(SGI). On systems where such kernel mechanisms are not present it just polls. The FEN facility being added to Solaris is a kernel mechanism. Using these interfaces, applications can register files and directories to be monitored for changes and receive an event notification, via an event port, when change occurs. In that sense, it is similar to 'kqueues', 'inotify', 'imon', file monitoring mechanisms. There has been discussion regarding File Event Notification on the performance community forum ' [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. With regards to why is this case not public - You may have noticed, not all cases are discussed in public. We are still transitioning into the open development model. More and more cases are being discussed in public. I can certainly try and find out if we can make the case materials for this case public. -Prakash. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
