Just looking at the fam package, and note that it is described as below
(my highlighting):
Package: fam
Version: 2.7.0-17.1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Chuan-kai Lin <ck...@debian.org>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 208 kB
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libstdc++6 (>=
4.1.1), lsb-base (>= 3.2-13), portmap, update-inetd
Homepage: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/
Download-Size: 54.1 kB
APT-Sources: http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu xenial/universe
amd64 Packages
Description: File Alteration Monitor
FAM monitors files and directories, notifying interested
applications of
changes.
.
This package provides a server that can monitor a given list of
files and
notify applications through a socket. *If the kernel supports
dnotify**
** (kernels >= 2.4.x) FAM is notified directly by the kernel.
*Otherwise it
has to poll the files' status. FAM can also provide an RPC
service for
monitoring remote files (such as on a mounted NFS filesystem).
Given we're running 4.x kernels now, and inotify long replaced dnotify,
I am curious if fam relies on dnotify or has in fact been adapted to use
inotify and this package description is simply out of date. Not
immediately easy to assume that it is in fact so out of date.
Kind regards,
Bernd.
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