Hi,
I just recently have added fam support to LinCVS (http://www.lincvs.org), a
graphical frontend for cvs. Implementing this, I encountered problems with
fam registering many (I tested with about 1200) dirs. The result in many
cases is a crash. Still, for up to 200 dirs, fam works fine. This seems to be
a problem with the polling mode, on my test system (SuSE 8.2) fam runs with
fileschanged, obviously no IMon support.
To fix this, I didn't want to patch my kernel, so I have written a kernel
module (http://www.fwatch.org) that notifies about change-events, but without
the need to recompile the kernel.
I have added two files from the fam project, to be able to include this module
into fam.
I wonder whether anybody is interested to include fwatch-support into fam? The
contrib files at the moment are just a hack since I was to lazy to change the
autoconf setup. So it will only properly compile if IMon is not installed on
the target system.
Keep up the good work,
Regards
Frank
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