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Chapter 9: Maintaining the File Alteration Monitor

The File Alteration Monitor (fam) is a daemon that monitors files and directories. Application writers can include certain function calls in their applications to let fam know that they want to be informed of changes to whichever files and/or directories they specify. WorkSpace and Mailbox are two applications that use fam; WorkSpace uses it to keep the directory views up to date, and Mailbox uses it to know when to indicate the arrival of new mail.

Troubleshooting fam

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