releases in that it focuses more on stability and functionality than on
new features. Not that it doesn't have its share of new and exciting
items. See http://www.gnome.org/start/2.18/ for all the goodies in
this release.
GNOME 2.18 for FreeBSD would not have been possible without the hard work
of the FreeBSD GNOME Team and our intrepid band of testers including
J. W. Ballantine, Pawel Worach, Yasuda Keisuke, Pascal Hofstee, miwi,
Yoshihiro Ota, Vladimir Grebenschikov, Jukka A. Ukkonen,
Phillip Neumann, Franz Klammer, and Neal Delmonico.
if gamin crashes or is killed with SIGKILL, a leftover socket does not
prevent gam_server from starting.
* Revert to using the home-grown poller in gamin's kqueue backend instead
of gamin's built-in poller. The built-in poller can still be enabled if
desired via OPTIONS.
* If gamin's poller is used, make sure all local file systems are handled
by kqueue where as all remote file systems are handled by polling.
Reviewed by: jylefort
only UFS file systems are handled by kqueue, but this might change in the
future if kqueue on NFS proves stable) [1]
* Switch py-gamin to use USE_FAM+WANT_FAM_SYSTEM
* Switch test target to regression-test so that pointyhat will run tests
automatically
Submitted by: ale [1]
in bsd.autotools.mk essentially makes this a no-op given that all the
old variables set a USE_AUTOTOOLS_COMPAT variable, which is parsed in
exactly the same way as USE_AUTOTOOLS itself.
Moreover, USE_AUTOTOOLS has already been extensively tested by the GNOME
team -- all GNOME 2.12.x ports use it.
Preliminary documentation can be found at:
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ade/autotools.txt
which is in the process of being SGMLized before introduction into the
Porters Handbook.
Light blue touch-paper. Run.
They were written to find problems in GList usage, but were causing gamin
to segfault on 4.X. Disable debugging by default, and only use the debugging
versions of g_list_* if debugging is enabled.
Additionally, add <string.h> to gam_api.c which would certainly fix problems
on 4.X alpha.
Reported by: Stefan Thurner <thurners@nicsys.de>
- also use kqueue to monitor files within a monitored directory
- tremendously improve the scalability of the backend when
monitoring very large directories
- periodically attempt to switch polled files to kqueue notification
- do not perform an extra useless lstat() when a missing file is created
- code cleanups
Approved by: marcus
* Do not send an ENDEXISTS event on NOTE_REVOKE
* Handle kevent aggregation if multiple event types are requested
* Mimic FAM's behavior of never following symbolic links
* Add exhaustive error handling
* Remove all the legacy thread-safe code since gamin is now single-threaded
PR: 79680
Submitted by: Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@brutele.be>
not monitor it anymore. The patch fixes the issue by adding
moved/removed files to the exist_list, so that gamin detects when
they are recreated
* No CHANGED event is emitted for the files contained in a monitored
directory, because kqueue can't do that. The patch adds periodic
polling for these files
* Instead of calling kevent() every second, the patch uses an I/O
watch (g_io_add_watch())
PR: 79605
Submitted by: Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@brutele.be>
used as a drop-in replacement for FAM. Gamin is designed to be more secure
than FAM as itdoes not require RPC, and runs a separate instance for each
user. While it is API and ABI compatible with FAM, it does not [yet]
support all of FAM's features.
This version of gamin comes with an optional (defaults to on) kqueue
backend for FreeBSD. This backend can only be used with UFS file
systems. If you need FAM-like support on non-UFS file systems, you
must build without the kqueue backend.
