andi payn wrote this message on Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 07:54 -0800:
> * The kevent mechanism doesn't monitor directories in a sufficient way
> to make fam happy. If you change a file in a directory that you're
> watching, unlike imon or dnotify, kevent won't see anything worth
> reporting at all. Thi
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 01:44, Terry Lambert wrote:
> andi payn wrote:
> > First, some background: On Irix and Linux, fam works by asking the
> > kernel to send it a signal whenever the specified accesses occur. On
> > FreeBSD, since there is no imon interface and no dnotify fcntl, it
> > instead wor
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 22:33, Ruben de Groot wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 07:54:07AM -0800, andi payn typed:
>
> [...]
>
> > * I think (but I'm not sure) that kevent doesn't notify at all if the
> > only change to a file is its ATIME. If I'm right, this makes kevent
> > completely useless for
andi payn wrote:
> First, let me mention that I'm not nearly as experienced coding for *BSD
> as for linux, so I may ask some stupid questions.
>
> I've been looking at the fam port, and this has brought up a whole slew
> of questions. I'm not sure if all of them are appropriate to this list,
> bu
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