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Re: fam vs libevent?

To: "Viner, David" <dviner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: fam vs libevent?
From: Alexander Larsson <alexl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 24 Oct 2003 09:44:10 +0200
Cc: "'fam@xxxxxxxxxxx'" <fam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 20:08, Viner, David wrote:
> 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/

They are entierly unrelated. One (fam) handles file change notification
and one (libevent) is useful as a scalable replacement for select().

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