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<refentrytitle>&cmd;</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum>

<refmiscinfo class="date">25 Mar 2008</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="sectdesc">&man1;</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="software">&release;</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="arch">generic</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="copyright">&suncopy;</refmiscinfo>

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<indexterm><primary>&cmd;</primary></indexterm>

<indexterm><primary></primary></indexterm>

<refnamediv id="gam_server-1-name"><refname>&cmd;</refname>

<refpurpose>The Gamin server gathers file events from the kernel and sends

these events to clients.</refpurpose></refnamediv>

<refsynopsisdiv id="gam_server-1-synp"><title>&synp-tt;</title>

<cmdsynopsis>

/usr/lib/<command>&cmd;</command>

</cmdsynopsis>

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<refsect1 id="gam_server-1-desc"><title>&desc-tt;</title>

<para>

Gamin uses a client-server model. &cmd; is the server which centralizes

client requests for monitoring files, gathers file events via File Event

Notification kernel API methods (see

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>port_create</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3C</manvolnum></citerefentry>),

and then sends modification events to application clients. It also shares

file events when multiple applications monitor the same file.

</para>

<para>

For configuring &cmd; refer to

<literal>http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/config.html</literal>

</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="gam_server-1-attr"><title>&attr-tt;</title>

<para>

See <olink targetdocent="REFMAN5" localinfo="attributes-5">

<citerefentry>

<refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>

</citerefentry></olink>

for descriptions of the following attributes:

</para>

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<colspec colname="COLSPEC1" colwidth="1*">

<thead>

<row><entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE TYPE</entry><entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE VALUE</entry></row>

</thead>

<tbody>

<row>

<entry>Availability</entry><entry>SUNWgamin</entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry colname="COLSPEC0">Interface stability</entry>

<entry colname="COLSPEC1">Volatile</entry>

</row>

</tbody>

</tgroup>

</informaltable>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="gam_server-1-also"><title>&also-tt;</title>

<para>

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>port_create</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3C</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>libgamin-1</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>

</para>

<para>Gamin Homepage: <literal>http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin</literal>

</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="gam_server-1-note"><title>&note-tt;</title>

<para>Written by Lin Ma, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.</para>

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