Re: [perf-discuss] File event API

2006-11-16 Thread Prakash Sangappa
Joe Shaw wrote: Hi Prakash, Thanks for your reply! On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 12:15 -0800, Prakash Sangappa wrote: As it has been previously discussed, watching for file events on an entire filesystem or a directory tree can be a scalability issue. So the File events API may not be suitable for

Re: [perf-discuss] File event API

2006-11-16 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi Prakash, Thanks for your reply! On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 12:15 -0800, Prakash Sangappa wrote: > As it has been previously discussed, watching for file events on an entire > filesystem or a directory tree can be a scalability issue. So the File > events API may not be suitable for an application

Re: [perf-discuss] File event API

2006-11-16 Thread Prakash Sangappa
Hi Joe, As it has been previously discussed, watching for file events on an entire filesystem or a directory tree can be a scalability issue. So the File events API may not be suitable for an application like the desktop search. For a desktop search system like Beagle or spotlight, it appears

[perf-discuss] File event API

2006-11-16 Thread Joe Shaw
[ Potential repost, I wasn't subscribed to the list before. -j ] Hi, I recently came across this thread from May about a file event notification API in Solaris: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/perf-discuss/2006-May/000540.html And there was a fair amount of discussion about the