Re: making FAM a required dependency

[John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org>]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 08:57:19AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <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?


There is a patch for FAM to use dnotify. So then there is no
need for a kernel patch of imon to get it running in linux.
In future versions of FAM it will use dnotify by default on linux.

But I think that a gnome-vfs solution might suit gnome better in the long
run.

John