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Date:      Mon, 23 Jan 2006 03:43:10 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: fam vs gamin
Message-ID:  <20060123084310.GA9967@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <43D47E36.1070906@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20060123040721.GA95972@xor.obsecurity.org> <43D47E36.1070906@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 07:56:54AM +0100, Alex Dupre wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > Are devel/fam and gamin supposed to be compatible?  They both provide
> > a libfam, but since I switched from fam to gamin, my courier-imap is
> > segfaulting.  This persists after I rebuild it.
>=20
> The library should be 100% compatible, since gamin uses the fam
> interface, but it doesn't implement all the fam functions (for a
> complete list of differences look here:
> http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/differences.html). If your
> courier-imap doesn't do something unsupported in gamin, the libraries
> should be completely interchangeble.

So, why is it not?  When I switched it back to fam, it stopped
segfaulting.

Kris
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