Re: making FAM a required dependency

[James Willcox <jwillcox cs indiana edu>]

On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 13:46, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 01:33:07PM -0500, James Willcox wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > gnome-vfs supports the monitoring of local files through FAM.  This is a
> > great feature, but currently it's not one we can depend on, since FAM
> > support is optional.  Consequently, if you want things to work as
> > expected, you have to handle the situation where monitoring isn't
> > supported by implementing your own monitoring stuff.  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)
> > 
> > IMHO, 1) is the best solution, assuming that FAM works on all the
> > platforms we plan to support.
> 
> Err, isn't FAM extremely non-portable, though?  As far as I know, it
> only works on IRIX, and with some weird tweaks, Linux.  I don't think
> this is a good idea.


http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/faq.html#what_os_fam

Though, I haven't actually tried it on anything other than linux (and
NO, it does not require a kernel patch).

Thanks,
James