Re: [Nautilus-list] FAM & imon

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 25 Oct 2001, Ross Burton wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am looking at patching my kernel for imon and install fam for use with
> Nautilus.  However, I've seen mentions of a set of patches for imon, by
> a RedHat (?) developer.  Where are these?
> 
> Also, what is the future of imon?  I've also heard that SGI have dropped
> it, and gnome-vfs will implement something similar at some point.  Is
> this processing, or is on the wish list?

imon is dropped by SGI (i believe), but it is not necessary at all, since 
Linux (since 2.4) has it's own file notification scheme called DNotify.

I've patched fam to use this instead, and that is what we ship in Red Hat 
7.2. RPMS availible at:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS

/ Alex