[geeks] Equivelents of SGI's FAM

[Jochen Kunz]

On 2003.11.26 02:49 jdboyd at jdboyd.zill.net wrote:

> On OSs like NetBSD and Solaris in particular (but also anything else
> unixy), by what methods does one achieve file monitering like SGI's 
> FAM does, or is better still?
AFAIK there is no unified API for file monitoring. The kqueue interface
of NetBSD-current can be used for file monitoring, see EVFILT_VNODE in
kqueue(2).
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       Jochen

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