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Fedora Core 3: FEDORA-2005-151 Moderate: Gamin Desktop Bug Fix

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Calendar Grey February 18, 2005
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Gnome application suite for Fedora Core 3 has received an important update, which includes essential bug fixes, significantly improving overall desktop performance.
This update fixes a number of annoying bugs in gamin especially the Desktop update problem in the GNOME environment that affected a number of users.

Summary

This C library provides an API and ABI compatible file alteration

monitor mechanism compatible with FAM but not dependent on a system wide

daemon.

This update fixes a number of annoying bugs in gamin especially the Desktop

update problem in the GNOME environment that affected a number of users.

- more documentation

- lot of serious bug fixes including Gnome Desktop refresh bug #139116,

- 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 8 2005 Daniel Veillard 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 0.0.22-1

- bit of python bindings improvements, added test

- fixed 3 bugs

* Wed Jan 26 2005 Daniel Veillard 0.0.21-1

- Added Python support

- Updated for inotify-0.18

* Thu Jan 6 2005 Daniel Veillard 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 3 2004 Daniel Veillard 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 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

ffd0df9c8bff3f10036cba370e8ed85c SRPMS/gamin-0.0.24-1.FC3.src.rpm

9a69d6f4a2e99f9ae67796245fb143a2 x86_64/gamin-0.0.24-1.FC3.x86_64.rpm

bfa42582b041469f6a8644c37f0e7d0e x86_64/gamin-devel-0.0.24-1.FC3.x86_64.rpm

2c7a736cfb0a104fd716c69ce5640d57 x86_64/gamin-python-0.0.24-1.FC3.x86_64.rpm

d55728a3d0b1d62d516e074ae1d943da x86_64/debug/gamin-debuginfo-0.0.24-1.FC3.x86_64.rpm

379517b5473ff7c2910fcbef413f81f9 x86_64/gamin-0.0.24-1.FC3.i386.rpm

379517b5473ff7c2910fcbef413f81f9 i386/gamin-0.0.24-1.FC3.i386.rpm

1819eb6f665451caa269e916740fd11d i386/gamin-devel-0.0.24-1.FC3.i386.rpm

488a040890085050630d06b57938ee0c i386/gamin-python-0.0.24-1.FC3.i386.rpm

c11f4c3cf9ff1c9dc30c2a713c9efccc i386/debug/gamin-debuginfo-0.0.24-1.FC3.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

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Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Desktop team https://www.redhat.com/en

veillard@redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit

http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Name: gamin
Version: 0.0.24
Release: 1.FC3
Summary: Library providing the FAM File Alteration Monitor API

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