Re: [SISE FAM] FAM on Solaris2.8

[Michael Wardle <michael.wardle@adacel.com>]

On Friday, March 14, 2003 13:39, Rémi Cohen-Scali wrote:
> I port fam 2.6.9 on solaris 2.8.

Excellent.  I will have a look at your changes sometime.

> Of course it runs in polling mode and I'd like to know if there is
> something like dnotify/imon on Solaris that one of you already
> used for fam on Solaris ?

No, there isn't.

I believe Solaris has a special device, /dev/poll, which is designed to 
perform monitoring in a way similar to IMon, but this may have been 
introduced in Solaris 7 or 8.  We do not yet support this.

If you're planning on adding such support:
- you might like to apply the DNotify patch and use to
  Monitor pseudo-interface it provides
- you might like to wait until I finish FAM 2.7, in which I
  plan to provide a much more generic file monitor interface,
  and reworked autoconf scripts, but this is unlikely to be
  finished for a few months

-- 
Michael Wardle
Adacel Technologies