RE: [RFC/PATCH] Nonotify - A simplistic way to determine directory content changes

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 03:04, Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote:
> >Might be interesting for the nautilus developers as well. Perhaps this
> could be used by "fam" instead of dnotify.
> 
> I would advocate for any notification solution that doesn't involve FAM.
> Slackware doesn't want to ship FAM because it is "very unsecure and its code
> quality is terrible" and so many slack users are left without live
> notifications on gnome. If something can be done to replace FAM, I am all
> for it.

I totally agree that fam is crap, but thats orthogonal to replacing the
underlying kernel notification mechanism. One could replace fam without
replacing dnotify, and replace dnotify without replacing fam.

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