Re: [gamin] Tty to port gamin to Solaris

[Henry Zhang <Hua Zhang Sun COM>]

Hi Daniel etc all,

Could anyone like to give any comments on my question:

What's the significant difference between FAM and Gamin? From the 
website I can see Gamin do some optimization on FAM, I am thinking why 
we not putback these fix to FAM, instead of developing a new Gamin?

We have a new kernel support, File Events Notification API, ready at 
Solaris, seems we can do the port, and is there any other pre-requisites 
to make Gamin run at other OS?

Can Gamin support thin-client environment? e.g. SunRay.

Thanks,
Henry

Henry Zhang 写道:
> 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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