Re: testing inotify

2006-05-02 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Greg Schafer wrote: > The bottom line is that you absolutely want your Glibc to be aware of > new kernel syscalls otherwise there isn't a hope in hell of them ever > being called by Glibc, even if you upgrade your kernel or user apps > at a later date. Yes. However, do you necessarily need to hav

Re: testing inotify

2006-05-02 Thread Archaic
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 08:22:02AM +1000, Greg Schafer wrote: > > The bottom line is that you absolutely want your Glibc to be aware of new > kernel syscalls otherwise there isn't a hope in hell of them ever being > called by Glibc, even if you upgrade your kernel or user apps at a later > date. D

Re: testing inotify

2006-05-02 Thread Greg Schafer
Archaic wrote: > or better yet, does anyone see a need to include the new syscalls? I'm surprised this question has been asked. It's Glibc FAQ material: http://sources.redhat.com/glibc/glibc-faq.html#s-1.8 And for an explanation with more details, pls see here: http://www.diy-linux.org/piperma

Re: testing inotify

2006-05-02 Thread Archaic
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 01:50:58PM -0700, Jim Gifford wrote: > Here's a simple program to test with archaic. Thanks Jim. :) -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.

Re: testing inotify

2006-05-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/2/06, Archaic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the info, Dan. I forgot to ask (and it's OT according to the subject line), but do you have some advice about testing the new syscalls, or better yet, does anyone see a need to include the new syscalls? Maybe Greg will chime in if he's ar

Re: testing inotify

2006-05-02 Thread Jim Gifford
Here's a simple program to test with archaic. http://freshmeat.net/redir/inotify-tools/63227/url_tgz/inotify-tools-1.4.tar.gz -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: testing inotify

2006-05-02 Thread Archaic
Thanks for the info, Dan. I forgot to ask (and it's OT according to the subject line), but do you have some advice about testing the new syscalls, or better yet, does anyone see a need to include the new syscalls? -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Harde

Re: testing inotify

2006-05-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/2/06, Archaic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't currently run anything that requires or even can use inotify (that I'm aware of), but I need to test the inotify patch for inclusion in the book. If anyone can provide me a simple method of testing (I'm leaning towards dovecot) that also tests