FAM dependence on dnotify
Chuan-kai Lin
cklin at debian.org
Thu Nov 3 01:33:01 UTC 2016
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 4:51 PM Bernd Wechner <bernd.wechner at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Given we're running 4.x kernels now, and inotify long replaced dnotify, I
> am curious if fam relies on dnotify or has in fact been adapted to use
> inotify and this package description is simply out of date. Not immediately
> easy to assume that it is in fact so out of date.
>
FAM has been abandoned by upstream developers over 10 years ago, and the
latest upstream version does not even support dnotify (dnotify support was
added by a patch in Debian packaging). So yeah, it is still using
dnotify. Sorry :-(
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