Porting Catfish and Autokey to FreeBSD

[Mark Felder]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016, at 08:26, Mark Felder wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016, at 04:18, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > On 01/07/16 06:33, PeerCorps Trust Fund wrote:
> > > It seems as though FreeBSD has an inotify compatibility layer.
> > > 
> > > At least that's what we've been informed. One committer in the
> > > community is currently working on getting it operational and into the
> > > ports collection.
> > 
> > It's already been ported.  See devel/libinotify
> > 
> > I say 'ported' but this is a wrapper providing the inotify API built on
> > top of kqueue(2), because FreeBSD doesn't provide the same notification
> > kernel functions as Linux does.
> > 
> > This implementation passes the inotify test suite and as far as I can
> > tell, behaves almost identically, except for the semantics around
> > process fork(2)'ing.  Under Linux, you can set up inotify and have those
> > settings preserved in a child process after forking.  kqueue(2) doesn't
> > let you do that.
> > 
> 
> Upstream has rejected a pull request to add FreeBSD support to pyinotify
> via libinotify due to their inability to guarantee it will work right
> 
> https://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify/pull/64
> 

Oh I see now jpaetzel is engaging them about this. Perhaps this is who
you were talking to?


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  Mark Felder
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