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diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_41__foo.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_41__foo.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9115efd62 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_41__foo.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +I made the MountWatcher only use dbus if it sees a client connected to dbus +that it knows will send mount events, or if it can start up such a client +via dbus. (Fancy!) Otherwise it falls back to polling. This should be enough +to support users who manually mount things -- if they have gvfs +installed, it'll be used to detect their manual mounts, even when a desktop +is not running, and if they don't have gvfs, they get polling. + +Also, I got the MountWatcher to work with KDE. Found a dbus event that's +emitted when KDE mounts a drive, and this is also used. If anyone with +some other desktop environment wants me to add support for it, and it uses +dbus, it should be easy: Run `dbus-monitor`, plug in a drive, get +it mounted, and send me a transcript. + +Of course, it'd also be nice to support anything similar on OSX that can +provide mount event notifications. Not a priority though, since the polling +code will work. + +--- + +Some OS X fixes today.. + +* Jimmy pointed out that my `getmntent` code broke the build on OSX again. + Sorry about that.. I keep thinking Unix portability nightmares are a 80's + thing, not a 2010's thing. Anyway, adapted a lot of hackish C code + to emulate `getmntent` on BSD systems, and it seems to work. (I actually + think the BSD interface to this is saner than Linux's, but I'd rather have + either one than both, sigh..) +* Kqueue was blocking all the threads on OSX. This is fixed, and the + assistant seems to be working on OSX again. + +---- + +I put together a preliminary page thanking everyone who contributed to the +git-annex Kickstarter. [[thanks]] The wall-o-names is scary crazy humbling. + +---- + +Improved `--debug` mode for the assistant, now every thread says whenever +it's doing anything interesting, and also there are timestamps. + +---- + +Had been meaning to get on with syncing to drives when they're mounted, but +got sidetracked with the above. Maybe tomorrow. I did think through it +in some detail as I was waking up this morning, and think I have a pretty +good handle on it. |