Re: [perf-discuss] Re: File events notification mechansim

2006-12-14 Thread Prakash Sangappa
Gamin/FAM is different from libevent. Gamin/FAM provides file monitoring services where as 'libevent' provides a general event notification API to collect events from different sources. Libevent interfaces with the event notification framework that the OS provides. The the event notificat

[perf-discuss] Re: File events notification mechansim

2006-12-13 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] > The interfaces will be based on the event ports > interfaces. If there is > a commonly > used API, like the Linux's 'inotify' we could provide > that using a library. [...] >From what I've read, in terms of what they do, there's perhaps room for two APIs: one like gamin (as a superset of

Re: [perf-discuss] Re: File events notification mechansim

2006-06-09 Thread Michael Schulte
Hey Chris, see some comments from my point of view inline. Chris Rijk schrieb: Here are a some of the file event types considered. FILE_OPEN File opened. FILE_CLOSE File closed. FILE_WRITE File was written to. FILE_READ File was read. FILE_ATTRIB_CHANGE File attributes changed FILE_CREATE File

[perf-discuss] Re: File events notification mechansim

2006-06-06 Thread Chris Rijk
> Here are a some of the file event types considered. > > FILE_OPEN File opened. > FILE_CLOSE File closed. > FILE_WRITE File was written to. > FILE_READ File was read. > FILE_ATTRIB_CHANGE File attributes changed > FILE_CREATE File/Directory was created. > FILE_REMOVE/UNLINK File/Directory was remo