[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-03-28 [[!tag open_issue_hurd]] I've been going through the xmlfs code, and plan to have it monitor the backing store (xml file) for changes and update the presented directory hierarchy when something is changed; is there a better way to check a file for changes beyond checking its modification time every few minutes? barrucadu: In the Hurd spirit, you'd use file_notice_changes (fs.defs). thanks we should manage to work out an inotify interface around it, btw like gamin? imho making gamin work should gain all the fam-using applications (which, looking at the sources, seems to support hurd already, not sure why it's not built) pochu: the hurd_notify of gamin does not build OOTB > /build/buildd/gamin-0.1.10/./libgamin/gam_data.c:476: error: 'PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE' undeclared (first use in this function) there are few patches in bugzilla to make it compile if they work, and you point me to them, I can upload a new gamin with them included #315644, #588337. #605246 and iirc there's something else i have locally but not send yet please check and submit :) ah no, those three contains all the build issues .. plus relative proposed fixes ok, I'll try to get to it soonish and you should know about two of them already ;D please remind me if I don't :) --- Apparently fanotify is cosidered inotify's successor, so we might directly go supporting that one instead, or both. --[[tschwinge]], 2011-05-10