Hello misc, I recently compiled minidlna to run on my local OBSD based home server. It runs great by default, but it relies upon inotify to receive information on filesystem changes. I really like the program, but it's a nuisance to rescan my multimedia directories every time I add a new file, so I made an attempt at implementing kqueue. Compared to inotify I run into two different problems with kqueue. 1) It is based upon open file descriptors, so I can't include every directory I have in my multimedia-collection, because I run out of open file descriptors. 2) It only shows that there has been a change in the directory, so I have to do a full compare of the files in the directory compared to the entries in the database.
Both aren't really big problems (the second is merely a nuisance and the first one can be, albeit somewhat incomplete, worked around by just including the most current directories). But I would really like to know if there is alternative API in OpenBSD (and preferably even more portable then that) that comes closer to Linux' inotify functionality, or do I just have to make do with kqueue? Sincerely, Martijn van Duren
