gamin 0.1.7

[eculp at encontacto.net]

Quoting Alex Dupre <ale at FreeBSD.org>:

> In the last days I worked on porting the latest release of gamin 
> (0.1.7) to FreeBSD (and cygwin, too, but this is for another mailing 
> list ;-)).
> If you don't want to read more, the result was successfully and the 
> new port may be downloaded for testing from 
> http://www.alexdupre.com/gamin.tar.gz.
> If you are interested in porting work and changed internals go ahead.
> The 0.1.7 release works (with about the same bugs of 0.1.5) 
> out-of-the-box only on Linux with kernel backends (dnotify/inotify). 
> Polling is broken, kqueue doesn't compile. I fixed all the bugs I 
> found and tried to make polling and kqueue work flawless.
> Internally I replaced the read of the linux /etc/mtab file with a 
> call to getmntinfo() to know which file system could be monitored by 
> the kernel and which should be polled. In the latter case the 
> monitoring job is carried out by the polling backend, in the former 
> the job is completed by the kqueue backend in the same way is done 
> actually in the 0.1.5 release.
> I did many tests on a 6-STABLE with thousands of monitored dirs/files 
> on ufs and smbfs file systems to catch any possible bug, but it seems 
> it's working great.
> Unless you will find anything wrong with the port, I'm going to 
> commit it in the end of the week.

Alex,

I'm a bit confused.  With this port will the fam/gamin conflict with 
courier still exist or will gamin be used in place of fam?

Thanks,

ed