KDirWatch emitting dirty signal many times for one change

[Josef Weidendorfer]

> On Tue April 13 2004 21:15, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
> > The advantage of FAM: It works around NFS not being able to reliable
> > notify file changes (?): If a directory is mounted via NFS, the FAM
> > daemon tries to connect to a remote FAM daemon on the NFS server, to get
> > file change events from the server in a reliable way.
>
> Do you know if such setups are actually in use? As far as I know does
> hardly anyone run such remotely accessibly daemon on its NFS server.

For sure in SGI only environments. Otherwise, I don't know.
If an administrator doesn't know about a service and its trustability, he 
won't enable it for a file server. But I don't think that FAM has security 
reasons because of its long history in IRIX environments.

Josef

>
> Cheers,
> Waldo
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