tightening requirements... sorta

[Robby Workman]

Nick Schermer wrote:
> 2008/8/9 Robby Workman <xfce at rlworkman.net>:
>> Do people still use *fam* at all?  Maybe that's the only thing
>> available on *BSD, but for linux anyway, I've not seen any problems
>> at all with gamin?
> 
> I think almost every major distro ships with fam, because gamin is more
> or less dead and only works for local filesystems IIRC. 


Hmmm...  from what I can tell:

fam 2.6.10 was released 8/20/2007 --
   ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/download/fam-2.6.10.tar.gz

gamin 0.1.9 was released 7/27/2007 --
   http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/sources/gamin-0.1.9.tar.gz

If one is dead, then so is the other, it seems.

More importantly, I had exactly the opposite understanding with
respect to what most major distributions are shipping - from what
I recall, gamin is preferred over fam due to:
   1. no running daemon is required
   2. gamin uses the newer inotify, whereas fam uses old dnotify

It's quite possible that I'm wrong, and if so, please enlighten me :)

-RW