Re: File monitor rewrite: Solaris (and other) help wanted
- From: Ryan Lortie <desrt desrt ca>
- To: Christian Hergert <christian hergert me>, gtk-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: File monitor rewrite: Solaris (and other) help wanted
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 19:13:02 -0500
hi,
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015, at 18:14, Christian Hergert wrote:
I quickly read over the relevant commit message. I didn't see anything
alluding to the goal of the patch set. I'm sure there is a goal you have
in mind?
Overhead reduction, performance related I assume?
Thread safety -- file and mount monitors are currently known to be
crash-prone due to races.
This has become particularly problematic since GDesktopAppInfo started
using them from the GLib worker thread to watch for changes to desktop
files.
Due to the inotify-kernel changes on that branch, however, one measure
of performance is definitely improved: file notifications will now
arrive immediately, instead of after a hardwired delay.
Cheers
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