Bug#733743: ITP: libnih.la -- portable libnih implementation

[Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@debian.org>]

On 31 December 2013 15:25, cameron <camerontnorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dmitri,
>
> Why do you not use libinotify-kqueue? I know you mentioned not wanting to
> have a lot of external dependencies, but I think using that library will
> allow other linux applications to more easily port to kFreeBSD.
>

I have packaged it and attempted to use it. [1] Unfortunately it
doesn't provide sufficient compatibility and I see a lot of unit-test
failures.
Instead of enabling something partially broken, i'd rather not provide
the facility full stop and instead implement a native kqueue/kevent.
Granted I could spend time improving libinotify-kqueue. At the moment
I'm focusing on booting a kFreeBSD/eglibc system with upstart, since
file notifications are optional in upstart (well to be precise, they
may fail / raise errors at runtime and upstart handles that
gracefully)

[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/libi/libinotify-kqueue.html

Regards,

Dimitri.