Re: [Nautilus-list] IMON in mainstream Linux kernel?

[Yoann Vandoorselaere <yoann mandrakesoft com>]

Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com> writes:

> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Darin Adler wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday, June 14, 2001, at 09:20  AM, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote:
> >
> > > BTW: do you know if IMON will get integrated in the mainstream kernel ?
> >
> > Almost certainly not. The kernel hackers have their own monitoring API,
> > which they think is superior to IMON. Seth said that it seemed like the
> > Linux monitoring code was not sufficient to do what FAM requires, but I
> > haven't looked into it. It's possible that a future version of FAM could
> > use the Linux monitoring.
> 
> The kernel people doesn't think the current monitoring API is superior. In
> fact, most people think it's crap. I don't know why Linus let it in
> though. It slipped in with some file lease changes that samba needed.

I think (not sure), that Richard Gooch is working on it...
(He wrote a nice paper about asynchronous I/O where he talk about
 monitoring)... 

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