Re: making FAM a required dependency

[Joergen Scheibengruber <Joergen Scheibengruber informatik uni-ulm de>]

Am Die, 2002-10-01 um 00.57 schrieb Jeff Waugh:
> <quote who="James Willcox">
> 
> > I see at least 2 ways to fix this problem.
> > 
> > 1)  Make FAM a required dependency for gnome-vfs
> > 
> > 2)  Implement a fallback monitoring impl. in gnome-vfs when FAM isn't
> > available.  (only for local files)
> 
>   3)  dnotify (and other OS-specific notification schemes) support in the
>   to-be-written gnome-vfs daemon, or just add dnotify support to gnome-vfs
>   without the daemon (which might suck).
> 
> Do we really need FAM?

Hmm, but it seems like dnotify has a ugly bug in kernels below 2.4.19
:-(

<quotation from the dnotify (application) source>

Due to a bug in kernel 2.4.18 and below, it is necessary to registerer
all notifications after a fork+exit.

</quotation>

Jörgen