Re: inotify fswatcher

[Philippe Roussel]

On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 01:13:44PM +0200, Enrico Sersale wrote:
> I'm interested. I was just thinking to use fam for this because it seems to 
> be available on other platforms besides linux. But I must say that I don't 
> know either inotify or fam and perhaps using inotify on linux and the old 
> NSTimer based solution on other systems could be a reasonable compromise...
> If you want to help with inotify, I'd be very glad; write me.

Well, it's hard to make a decision. FAM seemed like a good solution 3
years ago as it's (kinda) cross-platorm but its development staled
(last version 2003-11-26) and the only known kernel backends are
dnotify on linux and imon on irix.

Gamin (http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/) is a binary and source
code compatible FAM replacement. It can poll, use dnotify and inotify
on linux and kqueue on FreeBSD (and maybe OS X ?) but uses glib-2.0
and seems to be abandoned : gnome-vfs doesn't link to it anymore and
instead implements its own monitor using inotify...

I think I'll give FAM/gamin a try.

Philippe
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