On Fre, 2006-04-07 at 23:09 +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > Probably having newer kernel headers. From gnome-vfs configure, it > > checks for linux/inotify.h or sys/inotify.h (from glibc-2.3.90+) to > > enable inotify. This is what I got with l-l-h-2.6.12.0 and > > glibc-2.3.6: > > > > FS monitor backends: fam > > > > In that case, I'm guessing fam (gamin) is providing the notification. > > Exactly right. It's worked for more than a year, it worked with FAM and > it works with Gamin. If Gnome VFS can now use inotify directly it makes > me wonder if Gamin is still needed.
inotify only works with local filesystems, FAM works with nfs - if correctly setup. Jürg -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
