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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: What is libfam ???
From:       Andreas Pour <pour () mieterra ! com>
Date:       2001-09-28 12:30:20
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Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote:
> 
> On Friday 28 September 2001 08:15, Andreas Pour wrote:
> ..
> > From the rpm description:
> >
> > Fam, the File Alteration Monitor, provides a daemon and an API which
> > applications can use to be notified when specific files or directories
> > are changed.  Fam works best if your kernel has imon.  (Otherwise, it
> > has to poll the filesystem instead of being notified as operations are
> > performed on the files it's monitoring.)  See
> > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/ for more information on fam and
> > imon.
> >
> >
> > KDE uses fam to determine when files or directories have been changed in
> > most places where a change would be significant (e.g., if you add a new
> > .desktop file, kicker should be notified if it is an application file so
> > it can update the menu and konqueror should be notified if it is a
> > mimelnk file).
> >
> > If you don't have libfam and the kernel module imon, KDE has to use
> > polling to check for changed files/directories, which is inefficient
> > (can take significant CPU if a lot of directories are being watched and
> > can slow other processes trying to access the hard drive).  So if you
> > can use libfam and the imon kernel module :-).
> 
> Hi,
> 
> the above cited text looks _perfect_ to me.  :-)
> 
> What about adding that to the kde.org online documentation and/or to
> the respective Usenet postings?

Hi,

I have started a little project to catalog the KDE dependencies.  The
information is available at
http://promo.kde.org/devel/kde-dependencies.txt .  Any volunteers to
help complete the database is appreciated.

Ciao,

Dre
 
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