Martin Blapp wrote:
We just noted that SGI's famd (the file alteration deamon) in BSD
does have to poll the devices, instead getting noticed by the kernel.
How hard would it be to integrate kernel support for this
using kqueue ?
It's there; you just have to register interest in the events.
Hi,
As the kqueue paper points out, /dev/imon is less efficient that
the kqueue equivalent.
Of course. But it sucks adding kqueue support to all programs which already
use imon support.
I'll do this now for the fam port. Any other programs out there which use
/dev/imon directly ?
That
Martin Blapp wrote:
Hi,
As the kqueue paper points out, /dev/imon is less efficient that
the kqueue equivalent.
Of course. But it sucks adding kqueue support to all programs which already
use imon support.
I'll do this now for the fam port. Any other programs out there which use
Hi Somomax,
We have two versions then :-)
http://people.freebsd.org/~mbr/fam-kqueue.tgz
It's David Rufino's version merged with our port.
After I have tested everything I'll ask the port maintainer
to commit it.
Maybe I should make a port of bsdfam ? Why haven't you done one ?
Martin
