Gamin

Released 0.0.7 yesterday, this fixes monitoring of files initially missing. It also enable both kernel (dnotify) and polling monitoring of resource. It serves 2 purpose at the moment, one is checking when monitored resources do not exist (dnotify forces to open[1]() the file) the second one is to minimize the monitoring costs on bysy resources, in that case monitoring is switched to polling untill the resource comes back to a quiet status. An example of this is that watching an active directory (say you're running make in a source tree you're watching) should not eat all the CPU anymore due to the constant flow of kernel dnotify events, FAM events, and nautilus redisplay.

[1] why on earth is advogato post replacing open followed by () with concat () in the articles, it did hit me once and I though I made the mistake myself but I just experienced that again, the engine replaced the string.

libxml2 and libxslt

I made new releases last week-end, libxml2-2.6.12 looks fine, fixes a lot of bugs and Kasimier really improved the W3X XML Schemas support. On the other hand libxslt-1.1.9 has a C file with a character \0 in it in a comment, gcc doesn't see a problem there, but Solaris compiler really dislike it, the patch is in CVS but I may roll a new release to get this fixed. Otherwise seems the integration in Safari is progressing nicely.

blogging

There is a lot of thing I realize I wanted to talk about but I just can't remember what it was. My attention span is getting short (old age effect ? ;) and opening the Advogato page to post is not convenient. As a result, the more busy I am the less I blog, while it should really be the way around. I also realize I miss blogging in French, there are things I don't feel can be appropriately carried in english. But I don't want to drop advogato either, as a result I don't blog much, maybe it's a good thing actually.