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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
2/ simplify the code base
3/ provide an API and ABI compatible replacement for FAM
4/ try to fix some other issues like resource consumption
The project home page is (temporary) at:
http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/
A mailing list is also available to discuss about this project,
see the following URL for subscription informations:
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gamin-list
and the on-line archives:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gamin-list/
The CVS base is in the GNOME project CVS base at cvs.gnome.org, the
module name is 'gamin'. See
http://developer.gnome.org/tools/cvs.html
From an historical point of view, gamin builds from the marmot project
authored by James Willcox and Corey Bowers and then heavilly modified
to turn it into a minimalist FAM replacement (Francophones will
appreciate the filiation from fam to marmot and gamin)
This library is available under the terms of the GNU LIBRARY GENERAL
PUBLIC LICENSE, and a copy of it should be found in the source under the
COPYING file.
Daniel Veillard
veillard@redhat.com
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