gamin 0.1.7

[eculp at encontacto.net]

Quoting Alex Dupre <ale at FreeBSD.org>:

> eculp at encontacto.net wrote:
>> 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?
>
> gamin is a replacement for fam. Unfortunately it's not 100% 
> compatible with fam. suspend/resume monitor is not implemented for 
> security reasons, but the main *undocumented* difference is the use 
> of the select(2) system call to check if there are new events to be 
> read. For different reasons it may be that select() doesn't find any 
> new events, while FAMPending find them, and viceversa. The only safe 
> and correct way to check for pending events before calling a 
> non-blocking FAMNextEvent is to call FAMPending before and after the 
> select() system call (and return true as soon as any call to 
> FAMPending return true).
> I don't know why courier-imap doesn't work with gamin. If the problem 
> was a bug in gamin, maybe I've fixed it, but if it was due to one of 
> the differences exposed above then the problem remains unless we fix 
> the courier code to work with gamin.
Alex,

IIRC, gamin was dumping core, but since it was a production server I 
didn't look further but went back to courier.  I hope someone else had 
time to look at it a bit closer.  If you think the new version has a 
chance of working with courier, I could give it a try.  Early tomorrow 
morning or maybe this evening if I can get caught up. (CST).

ed