On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 13:42, Danie Roux wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:23:11PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am interested in getting fam & imon working on my Debian unstable box, > > so that Nautilus can be notified when files change. Are there packaged > > anywhere? > > There is an ITP for it. Been there for a long time. I was looking at > packaging it myself, but thesa are the problems: > > - Linus did not accept the imon patch > - The guy who worked on libfam at sgi does not work there anymore, or on > libfam. > > If you still want it packaged, I will do it. libfam is still useful, > even if it has to use polling.
Okay. I've been told: "imon is dead on Linux. Linux 2.4 provides dentry notification, for which Alex Larsson hacked support into fam. You need: Alex's version of fam and a 2.4 kernel to take advantage of this at optimal performance." The patch is at http://people.redhat.com/alexl/files/fam_dnotify.patch If fam is build with this patch applied everything Should Just Work. Regards, Ross Burton
