On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Andrew Deason <adea...@sinenomine.net> wrote: > 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).
users of beegle/famd would love us long time. -- Derrick _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
