Elektrified X.org released (was: X configuration paradigm, and a proposal)

Avi Alkalay avibrazil at gmail.com
Wed Dec 8 04:17:28 EET 2004


On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 23:14:24 -0300, Avi Alkalay <avibrazil at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 19:49:52 -0500, Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> wrote:
> >   Use gamin. If inotify is present it will use it, if not it will fallback
> > to whatever is available. And if you're on Solaris, you can still use FAM
> > to provide the equivalent API as gamin.
> >   And gamin only dependancy on the client side is libc, you really have no
> > excuse to not use it :-)
> 
> OK about the client. But to really have it, I imagine you need the server too.
> So then what early bootup programs (when you still don't have /usr/lib
> mounted or any services running) will have ?
> 

Well, maybe not depend on gamin, FAM etc, through dlopen, and handle
linking errors, and not providing notification in early boot
stage.....



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