Matthias Clasen wrote: > On 9/29/06, Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 10:49 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >>> There was once a complaint that gamin was unmaintained and buggy such >>> that fam was then recommended, yet I see gamin instead of fam @ >>> http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen/ExternalDependencies. >>> What am I missing? >> Doesn't look good to me: gamin can only do local files, not remote files >> on NFS. Gamin is only useful for inotify and kqueue. I don't know kqueue >> is implemented in gnome-vfs, but at least inotify works perfect on linux >> with gnome-vfs. Fam is only used for NFS shares and is completely >> optional AFAIK. >> One exception is gnome-menus, which needs fam/gamin to monitor files. >> Most distributions have patched up that thing to use either inotify or >> gnome-vfs, so IMHO the dependency isn't right on that page and should >> list a choice between fam or gamin, but certainly not only gamin. >> > > This is a bit of misinformation. gamin works fine on my nfs home directory. > Also gnome-menus _could_ use gnome-vfs to do its monitoring, but > Mark did not want to add such a heavy dependency just for file monitoring. > And besides, gnome-vfs and gamin use identical inotify code, so it is > hard to see what would be improved by using one over the other... >
hopefully the new G-VFS proposal will provide the interfaces/hooks to the available file notification mechanisms (just in case one is more suitable over NFS than the other). -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
