Re: [SISE FAM] FAM on Solaris2.8

[Rémi Cohen-Scali <Remi@Cohen-Scali.com>]

Michael Wardle wrote:

>Excellent.  I will have a look at your changes sometime.
>
Not so :-) ... I really do it in a hurry.
Please keep in mind it is a first shot.
I just hacked the configure script, but I should have add a test for 
sys/mntent (instead I just changed mntent in sys/mntent)
I also used gcc as a compiler but It might be possible to use Sun 
WorkShop 6.2 c++ compiler (need more work).
But the main issue I'd like to fix is the polling. I'd like to use it 
for nautilus and it really need better performance/timeout.

>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
>  
>
Then I think I'am going to give it a try now. 
Thanks for the tricks. I found /dev/poll in docs and  I'am trying to use it.
I'll soon be back to ask more.

Regards