From kde-core-devel  Tue Jun 27 16:24:19 2000
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:24:19 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Could this help KDirWatcher?
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=96212305927059

On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Richard Moore wrote:
> This page points to a kernel module used to add detection of file
> modifications to rsync. This sounds very like the kernel feature on
> SCO by KDirWatch. I am thinking that maybe this module could allow
> KDirWatch to operate on local file systems without using timers.
>
> http://195.96.23.199/rsync/
>
> Rich.

KDE uses FAM. See http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/.

It consists of a kernel module (imon) and a daemon (fam). 

Cheers,
Waldo
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