[Nautilus-list] Re: IMON in mainstream Linux kernel?

[Yoann Vandoorselaere <yoann mandrakesoft com>]

Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com> writes:

> On Thursday, June 14, 2001, at 09:20  AM, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote:
> 
> > BTW: do you know if IMON will get integrated in the mainstream kernel ?
> 
> Almost certainly not. The kernel hackers have their own monitoring
> API, which they think is superior to IMON. Seth said that it seemed
> like the Linux monitoring code was not sufficient to do what FAM
> requires, but I haven't looked into it. It's possible that a future
> version of FAM could use the Linux monitoring.
> 
> But the important point is that FAM works quite well even without
> IMON. And the polling that it does is exactly the sort of thing we'd
> want to do in Nautilus itself if FAM didn't exist.

Linda do you know if fam will support current Linux kernel monitoring API ?

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