From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Does gam_server have to run?
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 16:25:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55F8466F.10204@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA98C1FC8B66@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local>
On 9/15/2015 11:48 AM, Doug Lewan wrote:
> All,
>
> On my last cygwin update I noticed that I have /usr/libexec/gam_server.exe running.
> I learned this because the install script could not kill it (and neither could I!).
> It was using about 1 sec/sec of CPU.
>
> With a little investigation I learned that
> it's part of GNOME's "file alternation monitoring".
> I'm willing to believe that I've installed /something/ of GNOME or that uses GNOME,
> but I do /not/ want the GNOME ecosystem creeping into my world.
>
> Can anyone help me understand how to stop it from running?
>
> Alternatively, can someone help me understand how to find dependencies within CYGWIN?
'cygcheck -f /usr/libexec/gam_server.exe' will tell you that the program is
provided by the gamin package. The /usr/bin/cygcheck-dep (from the cygcheck-dep
package) can tell you what installed packages require gamin.
Ken
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