Re: Inotify

[Joe Gasiorek <joe gasiorek gmail com>]

Lukas, not hard at all.  Grab a patch from the site Robert mentioned
above and patch the kernel.  Might help if you are patching vanilla
sources instead of gentoo-ized sources.  So make sure to emerge
development-sources not gentoo-dev-sources.  Patch the kernel, enable
the option and your golden.  I'm going to try and get some stuff added
to the wiki today about this.

But this does raise a larger question:

With all of these exceptions are we now requireing inotify or is it
just a helpful feature?

If we require it, does it limit porting to other platorms?  It also
requires users to deal with kernels which may limit the testing
audience.  On the other hand....inotify is freakin' awsome!

-- Joe Gasiorek
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> On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 13:57:50 +0200, AAA Slovacka <lukas pmad net> wrote:
> > How hard is it to get inotify working on a Gentoo system?
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> > Lukas
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> > Michael Koby wrote:
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> > >I've been noticing today and yesterday that when I start the beagle
> > >dameon using "beagled --nofork" I get an error about it not being able
> > >to find inotify and that the FileSystemQueryable throws a
> > >System.Exception.  And it throws a bunch of errors and then I can't
> > >search anything using Best.  I went through CVS to see why this might
> > >be happening and found a few places in the beagled where there is "..
> > >is now inotify only".
> > >
> > >I assume this is due to my possible lack of having inotify installed.
> > >Unfortunatly I'm pretty new to some of this and I don't know exactly
> > >what inotify is and I can't seem to find in my kernel .config file.
> > >
> > >Could someone please be kind enough to educate me as to what exactly
> > >inotify is and how to get it installed properly.  The only info I find
> > >on the thing is a few patches here and there, but nothing really
> > >expalintory as to what it is and how to go about installing it
> > >correctly (not really into screwing up my kernel).
> > >
> > >Thanks.
> > >
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