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

[Guenther Alka]

Not sure if this is helpful for your problem..

I use fswatch 1.17.1 for filesystem monitoring in napp-it.
It supports the Solaris file event notification (or the Linux inotify 
with some problems on Solaris so prefer event notification on Illumos).

You can compile it via

cd /root
wget 
https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch/releases/download/1.17.1/fswatch-1.17.1.tar.gz 
--no-check-certificate
tar -zxvf fswatch-1.17.1.tar.gz
cd fswatch-1.17.1/
./configure
make
make install

installs binaries to-> /usr/local/bin.


/The File Events Notification Monitor//
//
//The File Events Notification monitor is backed by the File Events 
Notification API of the Solaris/Illumos kernel. This monitor is very 
efficient, it suffers from no known resource-exhaustion problems and it 
scales very well with the number of objects being watched. This monitor 
is the default monitor on systems running a Solaris or Illumos kernel 
providing this API. /

https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch

Gea


> 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
>
>
>
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