How to exclude directories from gamin?

[barbara]

> On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 23:03 +0200, barbara wrote:
> > > Mike Harding wrote:
> > > > That page (http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/config.html) doesn't
> > > > tell how to exclude directories, only how to select polling or
> > > > notification.  Grrr!
> > > 
> > > The secret is to use polling on paths you don't want to lock.  The
> > > problem with FreeBSD's kqueue system is that it requires the
> > > file/directory to be open in order to monitor it.  If you disable kernel
> > > notification for certain paths, and opt for polling, then the files do
> > > not need to be opened, and thus they will not prevent umount from working.
> > > 
> > > Joe
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > So the only "useful" method on FreeBSD should be poll, is it correct?
> > I mean, the one that should be used.
> 
> No.  Kernel notification is useful for static directories (e.g. your
> home directory).
> 
> > 
> > But this is what I've got from the gamin debug:
> >     ...
> >     Dumping mounted file systems
> >     ufs filesystem mounted at /mnt/aux2
> >     ufs filesystem mounted at /mnt/aux1
> >     ...
> >     Dumping file system properties
> >     ...
> >     fstype ufs monitor kernel poll timeout 0
> >     ...
> > 
> > So it seems poll is used for /mnt/aux1 and /mnt/aux2 which are ufs fs.
> > Nevertheless I'm unable to umount them.
> 
> Are you sure that it's gam_server that's keeping then in use?
> 
> Joe

$ sudo mount /dev/ad10s1d /mnt/aux1
$ fstat | grep aux1
bar      gam_server  1152 5265 /mnt/aux1      2 drwxr-xr-x     512  r
bar      gam_server  1152 5267 /mnt/aux1      3 drwxrwxr-x     512  r
bar      gam_server  1152 5268 /mnt/aux1 17546240 drwxr-xr-x     512  r
bar      gam_server  1152 5269 /mnt/aux1 15191040 drwxr-xr-x     512  r
$ sudo umount /mnt/aux1
umount: unmount of /mnt/aux1 failed: Device busy
$ pkill -9 gam_server && sudo umount /mnt/aux1 && echo $?
0