Re: [gamin] What is the sequence of back-end upon which Gamin falls back?

From: Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>
To: "Antonio D'souza" <adsouza vmware com>
Cc: gamin-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [gamin] What is the sequence of back-end upon which Gamin falls back?
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 03:46:01 -0400

On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 05:06:53PM -0700, Antonio D'souza wrote:
> My expectation is that it will use inotify if available but fall back upon 
> dnotify if not and finally resort to polling.
> Is this accurate?

  yes that's the default behaviour, assuming inotify and dnotify are 
compiled in and detected and that the configuration file doesn't change
this http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/config.html

> Is there anything that SGI's imon provides that inotify 
> does not?

  No idea what imon does so I can't answer.

Daniel

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References:
- [gamin] What is the sequence of back-end upon which Gamin falls back?
  - From: Antonio D'souza

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