# Gamin the File Alteration Monitor ## Gamin project page

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Gamin is a file and directory monitoring system defined to be a subset of the FAM (File Alteration Monitor) system. This is a service provided by a library which allows to detect when a file or a directory has been modified. Daniel Veillard