I understand your point Sam but I think that in many words and elegant way you are simply saying: it is not my problem and it works on my side.
I asked if there's another way to implement those functionality and avoid the gamin of fam issues.. i mean is not the first time fam or gamin is root of some problems.. currently many project that uses gamin / fam in the past now deprecated their use of, starting by glibc library. i guess is a hard work.. but well i leave that good and right question here .. before leave off the topic, think about it SAm El mar, 26 de ene. de 2021 a la(s) 20:11, Sam Varshavchik ([email protected]) escribió: > > Jakob Bohm via Courier-imap writes: > > > On 2021-01-26 14:39, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > >> PICCORO McKAY Lenz writes: > >> > >> This kind of a hacksaw solution to fork off "pkill" is fine for a custom, > >> local hack. But this is not a practical, general solution for a number of > >> reasons. The correct solution is to determine what's broken with > >> gam_server, > >> and fix it. > >> > > And how is anyone supposed to do that, if the gamin project is > > inactive, as previously reported by Mr. Picorro? > > Try to figure out what the issue is. Assuming that the bug has been > identified, As a formality, submit it to upstream, first. The gamin's > project page is https://people.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/. The developers > information page states "We expect bug reports to be entered in GNOME > bugzilla or in Red Hat bugzilla". Just so you're on the record as notified > the upstream. At that point, several options become available. > > The license is LGPLV2, so throw the whole thing on github, with your fix. > This is free software. Anyone with the skills can fix it. If others will > benefit from your fix, you're now the new project owner. > > History is replete with projects that were forked from the original > maintainers due to maintaince issues. gcc was forked at point. X11 was > forked into x.org, so successfully that the original upstream closed up shop. > > I note that veillard is, or was, a Red Hat employee. Fedora's gamin package > appears to include a bunch of patches in addition to the upstream source. > I have not experienced any issues on Fedora. There's a fair chance that > whatever the issue is, it's fixed by one of Fedora's patches. > > So the easiest thing someone who's having this problem can do is pull > Fedora's patches, apply it to your distro's gamin build, and see if that > fixes it. If so, throw the whole thing on github. > > _______________________________________________ > Courier-imap mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
