Hi!
If you are still interested, Jim Hranicky at University of Florida was
kind enough to make available some online space for my port of
fam-2.6.9:
ftp://ftp.cise.ufl.edu/incoming
I uploaded the source code package yesterday afternoon.
Happy Holidays,
--Stefan
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On Friday 21 November 2003 17:37, Rolf Sponsel wrote:
> Great to se that FAM is begining to come to life again! :-)
>
> A question though - what about the support for Solaris?
>
> I recall Stefan Teleman, elected maintainer of KDE for Solaris,
> having done some stuff to improve FAM on the Solaris plattform.
>
> Has this, his work, managed to get into the 2.7.0 release.
> If not - I think it should (or are you of other opinion Stefan?)
>
> Please see email attached below:
>
> Kind Regards
>
> / Rolf Sponsel
>
> Michael Raymond wrote:
> > ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/download/testing/fam-2.7.0-pre2.ta
> >r.gz
> >
> > I've updated the pre-release of 2.7 to build correctly on
> > IRIX using the Freeware tools. Please try this out. If there's
> > no objections I'll push this out as the official release next
> > week on SourceForge and we can open up CVS for new work.
> > Thanks,
> > Michael
> > --
> > Michael A. Raymond
> > Core OS Scheduling Group Real-Time Lead
>
> - - - - - - - - A t t a c h m e n t - - - - - - - -
>
> Subject: Re: [kde-solaris] KDE & Sun GNOME
> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 23:27:25 -0400
> From: Stefan Teleman <steleman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Organization: Disorganized
> To: "For people using KDE on Solaris, with questions
> about KDE or Solaris" <kde-solaris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Rolf Sponsel <Rolf.Sponsel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>
> I will gladly make the FAM port sources and a FAM Sun pkg
> available.
>
> It's FAM in filesystem polling mode for now, but it is very fast.
> The performance improvement compared to KDE filesystem polling is
> about 3x.
>
> I am in the middle of porting it to kernel async callback mode, and
> i am about half-way through. This has to be done right, otherwise
> all hell breaks loose. :-)
>
> I have been running it on my Sun box (Solaris 8) since early May,
> and it has not shown any problems at all. My current (development)
> build of KDE 3.1.2 uses FAM, and the next Solaris release of KDE
> will definitely use FAM.
>
> If someone would be so kind and point me to the right direction as
> to whom to contact regarding FAM, i would greatly appreciate it! I
> would be very happy to provide the FAM project with the Sun pkg's
> and the Solaris port source.
>
> --Stefan
>
> -----
>
> On Tuesday 12 August 2003 17:17, Rolf Sponsel wrote:
> > Lars Tunkrans wrote:
> > > [... SNIP ...]
> > >
> > > Some of them like FAM and MAD depends on Gcc
> > > extensions and are also very linux dependent .
> > > so I have skipped FAM but build MAD with GCC.
> > >
> > > Stefan has mentioned that He ported FAM to solaris
> > > , It would be great to get hold of that
> > > port !
> > >
> > > [... SNIP ...]
> > >
> > > //Lars
> >
> > I agree, that's great! :-)
> >
> > I'd suggest Stefan feeds his work back to the FAM project so that
> > his efforts become integrated into the next release of the
> > product (and maybe politely ask for a "quick" patched FAM 2.6.11
> > release).
> >
> > But I'm not quite sure what "has ported FAM to solaris" means?
> >
> > Has Stefan patched FAM 2.6.10 with the findings we spotted when
> > compiling FAM on Solaris (and also have reported back via the FAM
> > mailing list) or has he (you Stefan) managed to implement a
> > kernel monitor for Solaris so that it works without having to
> > poll the file system periodically? That would even be greater!
> > :-)
--
Stefan Teleman 'Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition'
steleman@xxxxxxxxxx -Monty Python
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