Bug#885011: libgio-fam: Remove this package?

[Guillem Jover]

On Fri, 2017-12-22 at 22:26:48 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> I don't know whether Hurd supports a file-change-monitoring API better
> than periodic polling; according to GLib and gamin build logs, it
> doesn't seem to have a Linux-compatible inotify or a FreeBSD-compatible
> kqueue, and I don't see any successful configure checks for anything that
> looks analogous.

The Hurd does have native support for this via its filesystem server
RPCs. See server/gam_hurd_mach_notify.c in the gamin source tree for
an example user.

Thanks,
Guillem