fam, the File Alteration Monitor from SGI, will be used by both E 0.17 and the upcoming Nautilus 1.0.3 / 1.2, whatever they will finally call it.
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam Guess I'll take a stab at this. Will post the URL when done - I don't intend to jumpstart anything, just avoiding duplication of efforts :) -- Michèl Alexandre Salim