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From: Rolf <rolf.loudon@police.tas.gov.au>
Subject: getting many "change" events for some files using SGI::FAM
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hello

using the perl fragment as published on the SGI::FAM CPAN module home:

   use SGI::FAM;
   my $fam=new SGI::FAM;
   $fam->monitor('/foo');
   $fam->monitor('/foo/bar.txt');
   while (1) {
     my $event=$fam->next_event; # Blocks
     print "Pathname: ", $event->filename,
       " Event: ", $event->type, "\n";
   }

when I monitor most files, and then as a test say open them in vi and 
issue a write command (:w) the script reports two 'change' events.

But with some files I get consistently 32 'change' events reported. I 
thought initially it was related to the file size, but tests on 
similarly sized files do not reflect this.

Is anyone able to explain why I would get multiple events reported on 
some files and not on the others - the vast majority of files tested 
report two events.

My needs are simple and I could easily work around the multiple events 
(only need to know about one), but if I could solve the number of 
reported events it would be better.

thanks

rolf.