Re: Re: [binc-news] 1.2.14beta2 released (major bugfixes)

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Michael Curtis wrote:
>On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:12, Peter Stuge wrote:
>> I've heard fam is a complete mess and that the only really good
>> implementation is on Irix.
>I second this.  My experience with fam (at least the SuSE 9.2 rpm) is that it
>will often crash, do odd things or decide to use 100% CPU.  In short:
>buggy :p.

Also, one problem that cannot be worked around is that FAM behaves
differently on different file systems. For example, it does not work at
all on the ISO9660 file system; who knows what other file systems this
applies to..

Andy :-)

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