On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 23:14:24 -0300, Avi Alkalay <avibrazil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 19:49:52 -0500, Daniel Veillard <veillard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Use gamin. If inotify is present it will use it, if not it will fallback > > to whatever is available. And if you're on Solaris, you can still use FAM > > to provide the equivalent API as gamin. > > And gamin only dependancy on the client side is libc, you really have no > > excuse to not use it :-) > > OK about the client. But to really have it, I imagine you need the server too. > So then what early bootup programs (when you still don't have /usr/lib > mounted or any services running) will have ? > Well, maybe not depend on gamin, FAM etc, through dlopen, and handle linking errors, and not providing notification in early boot stage.....