gamin vs. fam

[Ulrich Spoerlein]

[LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
>Well, the whole gamin thing seems a bit confusing to me. Why is this
>attempt to replace an (apparently flawlessly) working software with
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Haha! You're kidding, right?

>another one that only supports a subset of the first ones features?
>
>Has the development of fam been stopped? Does it have other major
>disadvantages? Or is this just some gnome people having a power-trip?

The last fam release is more than two years old, and the port is still 
at 2.6.9 (which is rapdily getting three years old!). Besides, fam is 
buggy w.r.t to NFS mounts.

I don't know about gamin, but it seems awfully linux-centric and 
therefore rather unstable on FreeBSD. We would need to sneak in a *BSD 
developer with kqueue-fu into the gamin team ...

Ulrich Spoerlein
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