[desktop-discuss] Gamin???

[Glynn Foster]

Hey,

James Litchfield wrote:
> Fired up prstat the other day and noticed something new: gam_server was
> running around madly stating files. This seems to be
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/
> 
> The obvious question is why not use the Solaris file monitoring
> capabilities instead of stating the world away....

Gamin is currently built with a patch that should enable Solaris' FEM -

http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/jds/spec-files/trunk/patches/gamin-01-all.diff

hopefully others on the list will be able to say why it's behaving this way.


Glynn