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Re: [fam] New / Updated Files

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Subject: Re: [fam] New / Updated Files
From: Christian Kreibich <kreibich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:30:22 +0200
Cc: Martin Rode <martin.rode@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
References: <1019118924.8745.122.camel@marge> <3CBEB39C.3030801@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Atif Ghaffar wrote:
> 
> > 1) Is FAM capable of doing what I need to create a "hot folder" without
> > polling the directory every n seconds ?
> 
> Yes. You can use FAM with IMON.
> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/faq.html#what_is_imon
> 
> Have a look at this article, It may give you some idea.
> http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/March2001/article199.shtml

Since Martin mentioned linux-kernel I'll assume he's using linux, and
should therefore probably rather use the dnotify'd version of FAM. I've
been using it myself for a while now, it works great.

Cheers,
Christian.
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