The check in _ke_is_excluded, which causes GKqueueFileMonitor to
fallback to GPollFileMonitor when it returns TRUE, was made to prevent
file monitor from blocking unmount of removable drives on systems not
supporting O_EVTONLY flag in open. However, since g_mount_can_unmount
always returns TRUE on Unix-like platforms, the check always returns
TRUE on non-standard mount points, which is very likely to cause all
programs on the desktop to use the polling fallback if GNOME is
installed in a different prefix for development. This makes the desktop
sluggish and results in bad developer experience on *BSD.
Removing the event and closing the related file descriptor must be
done first to make sure the kqueue subsystem delete pending events.
The timeout must be disarmed before freeing the directory dependency
list otherwise it might populate it again.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795193
- 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
Cancellation of GPollFileMonitor is now handled correctly (in the sense
that no further signals will follow) but let's be extra paranoid and
disconnect our handler anyway, for good measure.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739424
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.
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
