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<refentrytitle>&cmd;</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>

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

<refmiscinfo class="sectdesc">&man3;</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="libgamin-1-3-name"><refname>&cmd;</refname>

<refpurpose>library interfaces to detect when a file or a directory has been modified</refpurpose></refnamediv>

<refsect1 id="libgamin-1-3-desc"><title>&desc-tt;</title>

<para>

<command>&cmd;</command> is compatible with FAM 2.6.8 and allows to detect when a file or a directory has been modified.

</para>

</refsect1>

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

<para>

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

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

</citerefentry></olink>

for descriptions of the following attributes:

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

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<row>

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

</row>

<row>

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

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

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</tgroup>

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<refsect1 id="libgamin-1-3-also"><title>&also-tt;</title>

<para>

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gam_server</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

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

</para>

<para>

Developers want to monitor the changes of a file may use the interfaces exported by FAM project <literal>http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam</literal> and link the application to <command>&cmd;</command>.

</para>

<para>

For the detail information of FAM interfaces refer to <literal>http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/doc.html</literal>.

</para>

<para>

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

</para>

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<refsect1 id="libgamin-1-3-note"><title>&note-tt;</title>

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

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