[Olsr-dev] olsrd v2 and inotify

[Henning Rogge]

On 05/08/2012 03:26 PM, Ferry Huberts wrote:
>> The current framework code contains a function called
>> "olsr_cfg_trigger_reload()", which commands the mainloop to reload the
>> configuration settings defined by the command line.
>>
>> Should be easy to write a plugin that triggers the command when a
>> certain file is changed.
>
> Yeah I know, but I meant that if the core integrates this, then things
> become _much_ easier; things become much more event driven, and at the
> same time we can avoid threading issues!

I think compiling an OLSRd that includes the plugin into the main 
executable will be a better idea. This way we keep the linux-specific 
functions out of the core code.

The result will be the same, just less os-specific things in the core.

Henning Rogge

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