Re: Building off Medusa

["Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" <amadorm usm edu ec>]

Chipzz wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, David C Sterratt wrote:
>
>  
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> > Apparrently there is a mechanism available in 2.4.19 kernels and
> > higher that can monitor changes in unlimited numbers of directories.
> >    
>
> Yes. And that leaves you where exactly on HP-UX, 
HP-SUX customers would need to pester HP so they collaborate with SGI 
personnel in FAM.

> Solaris, 
/dev/imon

> AIX... ?
Does AIX still exist?

(all remarks are product of a black-humor mood)

Basically, the changed file notification is the problem of the operating 
system and low level layers.  We only index.  Those people interested in 
having our product work in their particular architectures can contract 
us to collaborate with the SGI people to support their operating 
sytstem.  Most every other component in our system is automatically 
portable, beecause it's written in python.  Installation footprint might 
become a concern, but for our target platforms, Python is already 
installed, and there's a fairly standard Python distribution that can be 
installed in almost every platform.  Furthermore, we could investigate 
into reducing the Python installation footprint.  We basically employ 
the POSIX and the XML parsing utilities.

> Kind regards,
>
> Chipzz AKA
> Jan Van Buggenhout
>