Rereading .service files when added/removed and updated

Benedikt Meurer benny@xfce.org
Mon, 01 Mar 2004 18:24:49 +0100


Sean Middleditch wrote:
>>>Possibly an off the wall suggestion, but what about using FAM (if
>>>available) to check for updates?
>>
>>It should be a compile time option whether to use FAM or use other methods 
>>such as kqueue.
> 
> eek.  compile time options are the devil; binaries should be portable
> wrt features.  one binary should work everywhere.  check if it's
> available at run-time.

A run-time check would be ok. But please no dependency on fam.

Benedikt

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