[Bug 258010] kqueue shortcoming for desktop usage

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=258010

            Bug ID: 258010
           Summary: kqueue shortcoming for desktop usage
           Product: Base System
           Version: Unspecified
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: kern
          Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: tcberner@freebsd.org

Moin moin


FreeBSDs file monitoring via kqueue/kevent requires files to be opened to be
monitored.


This has a few draw back which mostly crop up in desktop systems (gnome, kde,
...) that 
have support for monitoring and indexing the users home directory.



Issue 1: A big ~ leads to file handle exhaustion

As all files have to be opened the kern.maxfiles sysctl needs to be tuned by
users. 

=> desktops won't work out of the box for those users
=> unnecessary crashes happening on startup of desktop sessions


Issue 2: Socket files cannot be monitored

As open() cannot be called on socket files, you cannot monitor a socket file
for its deletion.




Linux's file monitoring seems to be able to support these use cases -- maybe a 
re-implementation of their file monitoring should be considered inside FreeBSD. 
An other option would probably be to extend kqueue for these use cases.



mfg Tobias

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