- Stop using a custom thread for listening to kqueue(2) events. Instead
call kevent(2) in non blocking mode in a monitor callback. Under the
hood poll(2) is used to figure out if new events are available.
- Do not use a socketpair with a custom protocol requiring 2 supplementary
context switches per event to commicate between multiple threads. Calling
kevent(2), in non blocking mode, to add/remove events is fine from any
context.
- Add kqueue(2) events without the EV_ONESHOT flag. This removes a race
where some notifications were lost because events had to be re-added for
every new notification.
- Get rid of the global hash table and its associated lock and races. Use
the 'cookie' argument of kevent(2) to pass the associated descriptor when
registering an event.
- Fix _kh_file_appeared_cb() by properly passing a monitor instead of a
source to g_file_monitor_emit_event().
- Properly refcount sources.
- Remove a lot of abstraction making it harder to fix the remaining issues.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739424
That event is deprecated, and the kqueue backend can’t provide enough
information to go alongside the event (i.e. the name of the new file).
Use G_FILE_MONITOR_EVENT_DELETED instead.
Quite disappointed in the kqueue documentation for this: I cannot find a
single piece of documentation or example about how NOTE_RENAME is
supposed to communicate the new name of the file.
If it turns out that this is possible, the code can be amended again in
future. At least now it doesn’t abort.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776147
Previously, _kh_cancel_sub assumed that it only needed to call
_km_remove if sub did not exist in subs_hash_table. This is erroneous
because the complementary operation, _km_add_missing, can be called
from process_kqueue_notifications, in which context sub can *only* have
come from subs_hash_table.
Since _km_remove is implemented using g_slist_remove, which is
documented to be a noop if the list does not contain the element to be
removed, it is safe to call _km_remove unconditionally here.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778515
This is the bare minimal effort. This seems not to crash immediately,
but it definitely needs some better testing.
The backend is not in good shape. It could use some serious work.
The kqueue file monitoring backend was misusing G_GNUC_INTERNAL for want
of 'static' in a couple of places and also using it to declare a lock
that was never used at all.
Fix those up.
MacOS provides the O_EVTONLY flag to open(2) which allow to open a file
for monitoring without preventing an unmount of the volume that contains
it.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688518
Written by Dmitry Matveev as part of GSoC 2011:
http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/kqueue4gio/
This brings native file monitoring support on systems supporting kqueue(3)
(all BSDs) and remove the need to rely on the unmaintained gamin software.
The backend adds GKqueueDirectoryMonitor and GKqueueFileMonitor.
Some parts rewritten by myself (to prevent needing a configuration file).
Helpful inputs from Colin Walters and Simon McVittie.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679793
