Gamin

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See also gamine

Gamin is a word adopted from French (where it also has a female form gamine) for a boy, meaning: abandoned and homeless, who roames the streets; urchin.

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Gamin is a file and directory monitoring system that is an independent implementation of a subset of FAM, the File Alteration Monitor. It is a service that allows for the detection of modifications to a file or directory. gam_server is a daemon for Gamin.

[edit] External links

• The Gamin project page