Re: [Nautilus-list] FAM & imon

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 25 Oct 2001, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote:

> On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 16:14, Alex Larsson wrote:
> > 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
> 
> The problem is that for Nautilus to rely on FAM, you have to make sure 
> it is widely available (across distribution). I've seen in another
> thread that FAM doesn't seem to be maintained anymore (AFAIR: that the
> maintainers is unresponsive). 
> 
> The solution might be to fork FAM.

Well. I maintain our (Red Hats) "branch", but it seems there will soon be 
a new FAM release, so i don't think forking is necessary yet.

And if I were to fork it (I've thought about it), I would make it a 
userspace daemon to avoid the xinetd+portmap dependency, and remove some 
security issues.

/ Alex