This summer I will work for The NetBSD Foundation. This blog is dedicated to track my progress.
My project is “Add kqueue support to GIO”. The main intention is to bring a native file monitoring support to GIO. Currently it uses inotify “as is”, during the summer I will give it an abstration layer and a kqueue back-end. Additionally an inotify-over-kqueue compatibility library is planned, it will help to easily port and run any software that uses inotify directly.
The subject is interesting and fun, and it promises a lot of research of the kqueue and inotify implementations.
Here is a short plan of actions:
- Community bonding period
- May 23 - June 23: the core work
- June 24 - July 10: wrap up for a milestone (midterm evaluations)
- July 11 - August 1: the rest of the work
- August 2 - August 7: offline
- August 8 - August 22: final stage
The more complete one will be available here (as soon as I will receive permissions to modify that page).
Currently I am updating my NetBSD 5.0.2 to current . The Toshiba A210-199 laptop has overheated and halted during the build for three times in a row, so I have placed it on a sill to use a cool air from the street for cooling.
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