Re: [gamin] Try to port gamin to Solaris

[Henry Zhang <Hua Zhang Sun COM>]

Hi Daniel,

Daniel Veillard 写道:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 06:09:03PM +0800, Henry Zhang wrote:
> > Hi experts,
> >
> > I am thinking to port Gamin or FAM to Solaris, I am just starting now,
> > but I find this on the website: "At this point Gamin is fairly tied to
> > Linux, portability is not a primary goal at this stage ", I am not sure
> > if we have done some work in current Gamin relative with porting to
> > Solaris? (From the Gamin news
> > http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/news.html, I find this "fix build
> > with Sun's compiler(James Andrewartha)".)
> >
> > And is there any pre-requisites for porting Gamin?
> >
> > Is it possible to run Gamin in Sun Ray?
>
>   Gamin tries to use kernel support to detect file changes. So it is tied
> to the underlying kernel (or fallback to polling), it works on some BSD because
> support was added, it may work on Solaris, but it's likely to be far from
> optimal unless special support for that kernel is added.

Currently, a new kernel support, File Events Notification API, have been 
implemented at Solaris, and will integreted into Solairs recently, 
that's the reason I try to think port Gamin, so I think the kernel 
support maybe not big problem at the moment, (if it can fully support 
Gamin, I need to verify when try to port Gamin).

And currently my concern is if Gamin can run with our SunRay, and is 
there any special pre-requisites for building/run Gamin?

Thanks,
Henry
> Daniel

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