On Thursday, Oct 23rd 2003 at 11:08 -0700, quoth Viner, David:
=>can someone with more knowledge than i explain the differentiating features
=>of FAM and libevent? both seem to address the same problem area. libevent
=>information can be found at http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
=>
=>thanks
=>dave
Good question. fam is based on a particular patch added to the kernel that
came out of SGI called dnotify. It allows IOCTLs to specify that signals
should be delivered upon certain specifiable file events.
I just took a look at libevent and I don't have a clue how it's supposed
to operate. It seems to be OS agnostic and even supports winbloze. Leads
me to suspect it's polling internally. I could be wrong.
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