[Twisted-Python] Is it necessary to create a new reactor to daemonize a File Alteration Monitoring system
Tommi Virtanen
tv at twistedmatrix.com
Mon Dec 19 10:24:36 EST 2005
Kaladan wrote:
> I manage to write a file system monitoring daemon based on gamin
> (http://gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/) thanks to twisted API.
> Therefore I have created a new reactor, which inherit from the
> ReactorBase. In order to use the twistd application runner I have a
> GaminService which define a simple StartService.
Creating a new reactor is a horrible way to do that.
I guess you should either
1) use get_fd(), an existing reactor and handle_events() to talk to
gamin in a non-blocking way (and if that proves impossible, work on
improving the gamin client side library or python bindings so that it
becomes possible)
(plug the result of get_fd() as a readable fd in a reactor, whenever
it is readable, call handle_events(); the web docs don't explain if
non-blocking add of watchers is supported or not)
OR
2) reimplement the gamin client protocol from scratch with twisted.
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