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<h1 class="title">Introduction</h1>
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FAM monitors files and directories, notifying interested applications of
changes. More information about FAM is available at
<a href="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/" class="link external">» http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/</a>.
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A PHP script may specify a list of files for FAM to monitor
using the functions provided by this extension.
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The FAM process is started when the first connection
from any application to it is opened. It exits after all
connections to it have been closed.
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<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>:
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This extension has been moved to the
<a href="http://pecl.php.net/" class="link external">» PECL</a> repository and is no longer bundled with
PHP as of PHP 5.1.0.
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<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>: <span class="simpara">This extension is not
available on Windows platforms.</span></p></blockquote>
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