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</style><title>Overview</title></head><body bgcolor="#8b7765" text="#000000" link="#a06060" vlink="#000000"><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"><tr><td width="120"></td><td><table border="0" width="90%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="center" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" bgcolor="#fffacd"><tr><td align="center"><h1>Gamin the File Alteration Monitor</h1><h2>Overview</h2></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" align="center"><tr><td bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="200" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Main Menu</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><ul><li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li><li><a href="overview.html">Overview</a></li><li><a href="using.html">Using gamin</a></li><li><a href="config.html">Configuration</a></li><li><a href="news.html">News</a></li><li><a href="downloads.html">Downloads</a></li><li><a href="python.html">Python bindings</a></li><li><a href="devel.html">Developers informations</a></li><li><a href="contacts.html">Contacts</a></li><li><a href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a></li><li><a href="debug.html">Debugging Gamin</a></li><li><a href="security.html">Security</a></li><li><a href="internals.html">Internals</a></li><li><a href="differences.html">Differences from FAM</a></li><li><a href="ChangeLog.html">ChangeLog</a></li></ul></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Related links</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><ul><li><a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gamin-list/">Mail archive</a></li><li><a href="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/">FAM project</a></li><li><a href="sources/">sources</a></li><li><a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=gamin&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&form_name=query">GNOME Bugzilla</a></li><li><a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=Fedora+Core&product=Red+Hat+Enterprise+Linux&component=fam&component=gamin&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=MODIFIED&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&Search=Search">Red Hat Bugzilla</a></li></ul></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td><td valign="top" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%"><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><p>Gamin is a file and directory monitoring system defined to be a subset of
the <a href="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/">FAM</a> (File Alteration
Monitor) system.</p><p>The main goals of the project are:</p><ol><li>minimize the security model of FAM, the daemon runs under the user
account, it is compatible with SELinux</li>
<li>simplify the code base, dropping some of the most exotic feature of
FAM</li>
<li>provide an API and ABI compatible replacement for FAM</li>
<li>try to fix some other issues like resource consumption</li>
</ol><p>Gamin also serves as an interface to test the inotify mechanism to improve
the existing dnotify monitoring interface present in the Linux kernel.</p><p>At this point Gamin is fairly tied to Linux, portability is not a primary
goal at this stage but if you have portability patches they are welcome.</p><p>From an historical point of view, gamin builds from the marmot project
authored by James Willcox and Corey Bowers and then heavilly modified to turn
it into a minimalist FAM replacement (Francophones will appreciate the
filiation from fam to marmot and gamin.)</p><p>This library is available under the terms of the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html">GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC
LICENSE</a>, and a <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.php">copy</a> of it
should be found in the source under the COPYING file.</p><p><a href="contacts.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></body></html>
