Does FAM work without a kernel monitor?
Yes. If FAM is running on a system that doesn’t have a supported kernel monitor, it polls. This isn’t as efficient as using a kernel monitor, but it does mean that applications using the FAM API will continue to work, even on systems without a kernel monitor. Even when FAM has to resort to polling, it still means that there’s only one process polling the filesystem, regardless of how many applications are using FAM. Without FAM, those processes would all poll.
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