Re: [gamin] another release soon

[John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org>]

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 09:18 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 02:49:10PM -0400, John McCutchan wrote:
> > Yo,
> > 
> > I'd like to see another release soon. The only pending item I can see is
> > nailing down the semantics of the new config file stuff. Once we have
> > decided on how we want it to work, I will implement it. There are a lot
> > of important improvements to the inotify backend that I would like to
> > see tested by the community.
> 
>   Hum, I would have released this morning but we have a problem.
> Basically it seems /media support is broken on dnotify, first 
> running the regression tests, I see
> 
> nokernel.py
> -- nokernel.py
> Error: monitor got 0 events insteads of 3
> 
> to try to see if this was real I upgraded gamin to CVS, restarted nautilus
> and gam_server, then plugged an USB key. It got mounted automatically,
> nautilus opens a window showing the files content but changes mades 
> outside of nautilus (for example from the shell) to the directory in
> /media/usbdisk/ are not reflected to the nautilus view anymore. I tried
> to see if something changed gam_excludes.c about /media/* but no it should
> still be using poll. I used USR2 signal on gam_server to try to guess
> what is happening, the debug shows:
> 


> ...
> Exclude: use POLL on /media/*
> ...
> vfat filesystem mounted at /media/usbdisk
> ...
>   Listener nautilus has 16 subscriptions registered
>     Subscription 3 reqno 1008 events 1008 dir 1: /media/usbdisk
>     Subscription 1 reqno 1008 events 1008 dir 0: /media/usbdisk
> ...
> but I didn't see any of the poll callbacks every seconds which should
> show in the logs. 

I'm going to add some extra debug code to the subscription layer so that
we can see what method is chosen. To see the poll messages, you need to
#define VERBOSE_POLL in gam_poll.c , you can just uncomment the line at
the top.


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John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org>