Rudd-O.com

I have sadly discovered that integrating fam into my application is simply impossible. I an building a general-purpose metadata file indexing and search service, as per the charter for Advanced search services, and one of the key requirements is rather simple to conceive, yet technically a nearly impossible feat using modern widespread Linux technologies. You see, to maintain a near-realtime index, I need to use FAM to place monitors on every directory, and placing more than a couple hundred locks FAM. Now I’ll try writing a dnotify-based console app, and read the app’s output line by line in my app. I sure hope advances like inotify get more widespread support soon.

Initially architected as a better way to find and manage your files, Advanced search services launched last week, with me as chief architect.

There’s no code yet. There will be, though.

Check the Web site.