[OpenIndiana-discuss] Add inotify support to illumos-gate

[Stephan Althaus]

Hello!

As a search result from this morning, glib misses inotify/fam support,
which is a reason for mate-system-monitor to dump core.

FAM seems to be too old, but inotify-support is not in illumos-gate,
but Smartos has support for it.


Which is the "right" way to include inotify support in OI ?

a) Should we hopefully ask some smartos-developer to upstream this?

b) As a patch (-set) within oi-userland to illumos-gate ?

c) ??


A small search in the smart-os tree gives this:

$ find . -iname "*inotify*"
./illumos-joyent/usr/src/lib/libc/port/sys/inotify.c
./illumos-joyent/usr/src/test/zfs-tests/tests/functional/cli_root/zfs_mount/zfs_mount_watched_inotify.ksh
./illumos-joyent/usr/src/man/man3c/inotify_rm_watch.3c
./illumos-joyent/usr/src/man/man3c/inotify_init.3c
./illumos-joyent/usr/src/man/man3c/inotify_add_watch.3c
./illumos-joyent/usr/src/man/man7/inotify.7
./illumos-joyent/usr/src/uts/sparc/inotify
./illumos-joyent/usr/src/uts/intel/inotify
./illumos-joyent/usr/src/uts/common/io/inotify.c
./illumos-joyent/usr/src/uts/common/io/inotify.conf
./illumos-joyent/usr/src/uts/common/sys/inotify.h


Regards,

Stephan Althaus