freebsd-ports/devel/libinotify/pkg-message
Alex Dupre e9ce0d476d Remove a misleading and obsolete suggestion on kern.maxfiles value.
A typical desktop has a default auto-tuned value that is already
much higher than 25000.

Approved by:	maintainer
2018-12-17 07:59:57 +00:00

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Libinotify functionality on FreeBSD is missing support for
- detecting a file being moved into or out of a directory within the
same filesystem
- certain modifications to a symbolic link (rather than the
file it points to.)
in addition to the known limitations on all platforms using kqueue(2)
where various open and close notifications are unimplemented.
This means the following regression tests will fail:
Directory notifications:
IN_MOVED_FROM
IN_MOVED_TO
Open/close notifications:
IN_OPEN
IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE
IN_CLOSE_WRITE
Symbolic Link notifications:
IN_DONT_FOLLOW
IN_ATTRIB
IN_MOVE_SELF
IN_DELETE_SELF
Kernel patches to address the missing directory and symbolic link
notifications are available from:
https://github.com/libinotify-kqueue/libinotify-kqueue/tree/master/patches
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You might want to consider increasing the kern.maxfiles tunable if you plan
to use this library for applications that need to monitor activity of a lot
of files.
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