On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:22:10 +0100 Simon Wilkinson <s...@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> It is also here that we hit the GPL problem, because the functions we > would need to call to generate events based on what has changed are > GPL only and not available to us. There are a couple of ways around > this, either by invoking a user mode helper that has the ability to > create notification events, or by issuing VFS syscalls that simulate > the changes made on the remote side. I'm not sure how I feel about > either of these from a cleanliness and maintainability point of view, > though. For once, we'd have a stable API for something on Linux, though ;) Has anyone asked about relaxing the GPL restrictions on those interfaces? I know such discussions probably almost always go nowhere, but these interfaces are emulatable from _userspace_... I mean, come on. And also, to be clear: I was just wondering about the technical details. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't even use this functionality if we had it, and I haven't heard a lot of clamoring for it (the search indexing project I consider to be separate). -- Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
