freebsd-ports/devel/gamin/pkg-descr

Gamin is a file and directory monitoring system defined to be a subset of the
FAM (File Alteration Monitor) system. This is a service provided by a library
which allows to detect when a file or a directory has been modified.

Whereas the FreeBSD port of FAM polls files every few seconds, this port
includes a kqueue(2) backend for immediate notification of most alterations.

WWW: http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/index.html
Add gamin, a file and directory monitoring server and API. Gamin can be used as a drop-in replacement for FAM. Gamin is designed to be more secure than FAM as itdoes not require RPC, and runs a separate instance for each user. While it is API and ABI compatible with FAM, it does not [yet] support all of FAM's features. This version of gamin comes with an optional (defaults to on) kqueue backend for FreeBSD. This backend can only be used with UFS file systems. If you need FAM-like support on non-UFS file systems, you must build without the kqueue backend. 2005-04-02 11:08:47 +02:00			`Gamin is a file and directory monitoring system defined to be a subset of the`
			`FAM (File Alteration Monitor) system. This is a service provided by a library`
			`which allows to detect when a file or a directory has been modified.`

* Fallback to polling for files not supported by kqueue * Do not send an ENDEXISTS event on NOTE_REVOKE * Handle kevent aggregation if multiple event types are requested * Mimic FAM's behavior of never following symbolic links * Add exhaustive error handling * Remove all the legacy thread-safe code since gamin is now single-threaded PR: 79680 Submitted by: Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@brutele.be> 2005-04-10 19:36:01 +02:00			`Whereas the FreeBSD port of FAM polls files every few seconds, this port`
			`includes a kqueue(2) backend for immediate notification of most alterations.`

Add gamin, a file and directory monitoring server and API. Gamin can be used as a drop-in replacement for FAM. Gamin is designed to be more secure than FAM as itdoes not require RPC, and runs a separate instance for each user. While it is API and ABI compatible with FAM, it does not [yet] support all of FAM's features. This version of gamin comes with an optional (defaults to on) kqueue backend for FreeBSD. This backend can only be used with UFS file systems. If you need FAM-like support on non-UFS file systems, you must build without the kqueue backend. 2005-04-02 11:08:47 +02:00			`WWW: http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/index.html`