Re: [Tracker] one question about inotify

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 17:01 +0800, Jerry Tan wrote:
> thanks.
>
> Solaris has a samilar API,  File events notification
> It is just like inofy or fam,
> I will check its status to see if I can use it in tracker currently.

ok great - patches welcome. Someone was looking into doing a kqueue
implementation on freebsd for tracker so I am happy to accept these.

> BTW: Is there any roadmap for tracker?
>      I notice that you are not guarentee its API and database schema 
> stability before 1.0.
>      Is there any schedule to integrate it into gnome stack?

we will propose again in 2.20. However that will be for the desktop not
the platform so ABI guarantees will not be required at that stage
(although we should be virtually abi stable by that point)

> > On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 17:58 +0800, Jerry Tan wrote:
> >   
> > > when I configure tracker trunk code on solaris,
> > >
> > > it tells me that
> > >
> > > file monitor backend to be used: polling only
> > > inotify header location: none
> > > ioprio support: no
> > >
> > >
> > > It detects some kernel features, such as inotify
> > > which is to monito file system change,
> > >     
> >
> > It will also detect FAM/GAMIN as well (make sure you have the headers
> > for these installed so it can detect them)
> >
> >   
> > > but I want to know that solaris doesnot support inotify,
> > > how it will impact tracker's features on solaris?
> > >     
> >
> > real time updates and detection of file moves will be affected. Does
> > solaris provide any kernel notification of file changes?
> >
> > If so we would accept patches for it
> >
> >
> >   
> > > btw: I have no linux box at hand, I want to know
> > > when configure tracker on linux, what are the values for
> > > file monitor backend to be used?
> > >     
> >
> > 1) Inotify
> > 2) GAMIN
> > 3) FAM
> > 4) POLLING (also used if any of the above fail like EG on NFS)
> >
> > jamie.
> >
> >
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