
Gamin is a file and directory monitoring system defined to be
a subset of the FAM (File Alteration Monitor) system.
                                                                                
 The main goals of the project are:
 1/ minimize the security model of FAM
 2/ simplify the code base
 3/ provide an API and ABI compatible replacement for FAM
 4/ try to fix some other issues like resource consumption
                                                                                
The project home page is (temporary) at:
  http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/
                                                                                
A mailing list is also available to discuss about this project,
see the following URL for subscription informations:
  http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gamin-list

and the on-line archives:
  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gamin-list/

The CVS base is in the GNOME project CVS base at cvs.gnome.org, the
module name is 'gamin'. See 
  http://developer.gnome.org/tools/cvs.html
										
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)

This library is available under the terms of the GNU LIBRARY GENERAL
PUBLIC LICENSE, and a copy of it should be found in the source under the
COPYING file. 

Daniel Veillard
veillard@redhat.com

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