Re: FAM running amok
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On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 06:20:37AM +0100, Michael Schuerig wrote:
> Nope. FAM is used if installed, otherwise KDE (KDirWatch?) looks out for
> file/directory modifications itself by polling.
At least in KDE3.2 from CVS (mentioned earlier tonight in one of my
prior posts), it appears libfam0 is a dependency of pretty much any
package that would want to display a realtime view of the filesystem.
> FAM is supposed to be the better solution, because it uses kernel
> notifications (dnotify) instead of polling. That's the idea
> anyway.
Yeah, they just need to work out the bugs.
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