[el5_ga_base] gamin-0.1.7-8.el5.x86_64

This C library provides an API and ABI compatible file alteration
monitor mechanism compatible with FAM but not dependent on a system wide
daemon.

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• Mon Nov 20 2006 Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com> - 0.1.7-8.el5

  - Fix polling backend, making notifications on NFS work again
  - Resolves: #215504

• Fri Sep 08 2006 Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com> - 0.1.7-7

  - Fix problems in new inotify backend (#205731)

• Tue Sep 05 2006 Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com> - 0.1.7-6

  - Remove last regular timers from gamin

• Tue Sep 05 2006 Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com> - 0.1.7-5

  - Use sigaction to reset old signal handler (from cvs)
  - New inotify backend from cvs (based on gnome-vfs code)
  - Only create timer on demand
  - This should fix #204906

• Mon Aug 28 2006 Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com> - 0.1.7-4

  - Flush in-buffer on connection reset (#196444)
  - Patch from Ariel T. Glenn

• Tue Aug 22 2006 Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com> - 0.1.7-3

  - Use /dev/null as stdin/out/err when spawning gam_server
  - This could help if there is stdout output somewhere.

• Wed Aug 16 2006 Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com> - 0.1.7-2

  - Add patch that avoids closing the fd after FAMOpen, fixes some 100% cpu bugs

• Wed Jul 12 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 0.1.7-1.2.2

  - rebuild

• Fri Feb 10 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 0.1.7-1.2.1

  - bump again for double-long bug on ppc(64)

• Tue Feb 07 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 0.1.7-1.2

  - rebuilt for new gcc4.1 snapshot and glibc changes

• Fri Dec 09 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com>

  - rebuilt

• Thu Oct 27 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.1.7-1

  - hopefully fixes gam_server crashes
  - some portability fixes
  - removed a minor leak

• Thu Sep 08 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.1.6-1

  - revamp of the inotify back-end
  - memory leak fix
  - various fixes and cleanups

• Tue Aug 09 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.1.5-1

  - Improvement of configuration, system wide configuration files and
    per filesystem type default
  - Rewrite of the inotify back-end, reduce resources usage, tuning in
    case of busy resources
  - Documentation updates
  - Changes to compile inotify back-end on various architectures
  - Debugging output improvements

• Tue Aug 02 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.1.3-1

  - Fix to compile on older gcc versions
  - Inotify back-end changes and optimizations
  - Debug ouput cleanup, pid and process name reports
  - Dropped kernel monitor bugfix
  - Removed the old glist copy used for debugging
  - Maintain mounted filesystems knowledge, and per fstype preferences

• Wed Jul 13 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.1.2-1

  - inotify back end patches, ready for the new inotify support in kernel
  - lot of server code cleanup patches
  - fixed an authentication problem

• Fri Jun 10 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.1.1-1

  - gamin_data_conn_event fix
  - crash from bug gnome #303932
  - Inotify and mounted media #171201
  - mounted media did not show up on Desktop #159748
  - write may not be atomic
  - Monitoring a directory when it is a file
  - Portability to Hurd/Mach and various code cleanups
  - Added support for ~ as user home alias in .gaminrc

• Thu May 12 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.1.0-1

  - Close inherited file descriptors on exec of gam_server
  - Cancelling a monitor send back a FAMAcknowledge
  - Fixed for big files > 2GB
  - Bug when monitoring a non existing directory
  - Make client side thread safe
  - Unreadable directory fixes
  - Better flow control handling
  - Updated to latest inotify version: 0.23-6

• Tue Mar 15 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.0.26-1

  - Fix an include problem showing up with gcc4</li>
  - Fix the crash on failed tree assert bug #150471 based on patch from Dean Brettle
  - removed an incompatibility with SGI FAM #149822

• Tue Mar 01 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.0.25-1

  - Fix a configure problem reported by Martin Schlemmer
  - Fix the /media/* and /mnt/* mount blocking problems from 0.0.24 e.g. #142637
  - Fix the monitoring of directory using poll and not kernel

• Fri Feb 18 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.0.24-1

  - more documentation
  - lot of serious bug fixes including Gnome Desktop refresh bug
  - extending the framework for more debug (configure --enable-debug-api)
  - extending the python bindings for watching the same resource multiple times
    and adding debug framework support
  - growing the regression tests a lot based on python bindings
  - inotify-0.19 patch from John McCutchan
  - renamed python private module to _gamin to follow Python PEP 8

• Tue Feb 08 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.0.23-1

  - memory corruption fix from Mark on the client side
  - extending the protocol and API to allow skipping Exists and EndExists
    events to avoid deadlock on reconnect or when they are not used.

• Mon Jan 31 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.0.22-1

  - bit of python bindings improvements, added test
  - fixed 3 bugs

• Wed Jan 26 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.0.21-1

  - Added Python support
  - Updated for inotify-0.18

• Thu Jan 06 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.0.20-1

  - Frederic Crozat seems to have found the GList corruption which may fix
    - Frederic Crozat also fixed poll only mode

• Fri Dec 03 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.0.19-1

  - still chasing the loop bug, made another pass at checking GList,
    added own copy with memory poisonning of GList implementation.
  - fixed a compile issue when compiling without debug

• Fri Nov 26 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.0.18-1

  - still chasing the loop bug, checked and cleaned up all GList use
  - patch from markmc to minimize load on busy apps

• Wed Oct 20 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.0.16-1

  - chasing #132354, lot of debugging, checking and testing and a bit
    of refactoring

• Sat Oct 16 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.0.15-1

  - workaround to detect loops and avoid the nasty effects, see RedHat bug #132354

• Sun Oct 03 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.0.14-1

  - Found and fixed the annoying bug where update were not received
    should fix bugs ##132429, #133665 and #134413
  - new mechanism to debug on-the-fly by sending SIGUSR2 to client or server
  - Added documentation about internals

• Fri Oct 01 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.0.13-1

  - applied portability fixes
  - hardened the code while chasing a segfault

• Thu Sep 30 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.0.12-1

  - potential fix for a hard to reproduce looping problem.

• Mon Sep 27 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.0.11-1

  - update to the latest version of inotify
  - inotify support compiled in by default
  - fix ABI FAM compatibility problems #133162

• Tue Sep 21 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.0.10-1

  - more documentation
  - Added support for a configuration file $HOME/.gaminrc
  - fixes FAM compatibility issues with FAMErrno and FamErrlist #132944

• Wed Sep 01 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.0.9-1

  - fix crash with konqueror #130967
  - exclude kernel (dnotify) monitoring for /mnt//* /media//*

• Thu Aug 26 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.0.8-1

  - Fixes crashes of the gam_server
  - try to correct the kernel/poll switching mode

• Tue Aug 24 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.0.7-1

  - add support for both polling and dnotify simultaneously
  - fixes monitoring of initially missing files
  - load control on very busy resources #124361, desactivating
    dnotify and falling back to polling for CPU drain

• Thu Aug 19 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.0.6-1

  - fixes simple file monitoring should close RH #129974
  - relocate gam_server in $(libexec)

• Thu Aug 05 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.0.5-1

  - Fix a crash when the client binary forks the gam_server and an
    atexit handler is run.

• Wed Aug 04 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 0.0.4-1

  - should fix KDE build problems