0.1.9: Jul 27 2007:
- Bug fixes: enable polling when using inotify this fixes support for NFS
partitions (Alexander Larsson), do not run idle handler if not needed
reduce wakeups (Alexander Larsson), handling of failure of inotify
initialization (Robert Clark), force poll support if compiled without
inotify and dnotify (Ray Strode)
- Portability: patches to allow compiling again on Hurd and kFreeBSD
(Michael Banck), patches to ease compilation on OS X (Brendan Cully)
0.1.8: Oct 31 2006:
- Build and portability fixes: handle sys/inotify.h, Python detection
(Joseph Sacco), FreeBSD portability fix (Loïc Minier/Petr Salinger),
out of tree build and install (Loïc Minier), fix build with Sun's
compiler (James Andrewartha)
- Bug fixes: pkg-config cflags (Claudio Fontana), debug signal hookup
fix (Bastien Nocera), client filedescriptor close trouble (Alexander
Larsson), low filedescriptor handling in the server (Alexander Larsson),
buffer on connection reset cleanup (Ariel T. Glenn), inotify new backend
fixes (Alexander Larsson)
- Improvements: update the inotify backend to the version used by
gnome-vfs (John McCutchan), minimize the timeouts usage
to not wake up apps unduely (Alexander Larsson)
0.1.7: Oct 27 2005:
- Portability fixes (Diego Pettenò, Sjoerd Simons, Daichi Kawahata)
- A small memory leak fix (Christopher Aillon)
- Fixes for gam_server segfaults (Ed Catmur, DV)
- One last patch for Python detection
0.1.6: Sep 8 2005:
- Large revamp of the inotify back-end (John McCutchan)
- Code reorganization, changes for polling (John McCutchan)
- Portability patches for NetBSD (Johnny Lam)
- Fix compilation without inotify
- environment variable GAM_TEST_DNOTIFY to force dnotify on inotify kernels
(John McCutchan)
- Inotify race conditions fixes (John McCutchan)
- Removal of some asserts resulting in crashes
- Applied some testing patches (TomPh)
- Fixed a memory leak on inotify back-end
- Python detection fix
Gamin is a file and directory monitoring system defined to be a subset
of the FAM (File Alteration Monitor) system.
The main goals of the project are:
1. Minimize the security model of FAM -- the daemon runs under the
user account.
2. Simplify the code base, dropping some of the most exotic features
of FAM.
3. Provide an API and ABI compatible replacement for FAM.
4. Try to fix some other issues like resource consumption.
