FAM monitors files and directories, notifying interested applications of changes. . This package provides a server that can monitor a given list of files and notify applications through a socket. If the kernel supports dnotify (kernels >= 2.4.x) FAM is notified directly by the kernel. Otherwise it has to poll the files' status. FAM can also provide an RPC service for monitoring remote files (such as on a mounted NFS filesystem).
libfam-dev | Client library to control the FAM daemon - development files | Mehr ...
FAM monitors files and directories, notifying interested applications of changes. . This package provides header files and static libraries to allow the development of programs that interface FAM for file monitoring.
libfam0 | Client library to control the FAM daemon | Mehr ...
FAM monitors files and directories, notifying interested applications of changes. . This package provides a shared library to allow programs to connect to the FAM daemon and ask for files to be monitored.
libfam0c102 | Dummy package for libfam0 | Mehr ...
FAM monitors files and directories, notifying interested applications of changes. . This is a dummy package that installs libfam0; see README.Debian for libfam0 for details. You can safely remove this package once libfam0 is installed.