Andreas Vögele writes: > Mikolaj Kucharski writes: >> On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 01:23:12PM +0100, Andreas Vögele wrote: >>> It seems that the port so far didn't take into account that the >>> p5-IO-KQueue package could be installed on the system. Since the >>> KQueue-based file watcher quickly exceeds the maximum number of >>> open files in a default OpenBSD installation, I changed >>> ChangeNotify.pm to prefer the Default watcher even if IO::KQueue is >>> available. I think this is more reasonable than to ask the users to >>> raise their openfiles and maxfiles limits from 128 and 7030 to much >>> higher values. >> >> Ok. What about users, who altered their system already, and have >> raised kern.maxfiles and openfiles-cur in login.conf(5) for example, >> for gam_server (see gamin package). >> >> Not that I am using ChangeNotify.pm, but what is default watcher in >> that module? > > The default is the Default watcher unless you have happened to install > the p5-IO-KQueue package, which the current p5-File-ChangeNotify package > does NOT depend on. [...]
I will put the KQueue-based stuff into a sub package. That way the Default watcher stays the default until the optional sub package is installed, which will switch the default to the KQueue-based watcher.
