On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 11:18:00PM +0800, Henry Zhang wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > Thanks for reply... > > I looked through the Gamin website, find several question, could you > give any comments? > > 1. "No system wide server, instead it relies on per user server, if > needed started on demand by the fam/gamin library." > > Is it means each user ID have a fam-server? if so, in thin-client/server
yes if they have program running using FAM APIs > mode, for example SunRay, there are lots of users, and connect to > server, so have to create lots of fam-server? how to handle them? will > cause some performance problem? No idea, you will have to check, the cost is of course dependant on the efficiency of the interfaces provided by the system > 2.any progress on portability? > I noticed this: "At this point Gamin is fairly tied to Linux, > portability is not a primary goal at this stage" > Also this in News: "fix build with Sun's compiler (James Andrewartha)" > at http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/news.html, > > so seems Gamin can build at Solaris, is there any other progress? No idea, I don't compile on Solaris, I just take patches when I receive some and they look good. > 3. Does Gamin provide API's to watch the entire file path including > symbolic links? Gamin implement only FAM's APIs, and no recursive support. Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ Gamin-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gamin-list
