Question

I want to simulate a FAM event. The API doesn’t seem to support this.
Why? Because I have a thread waiting on a FAMNextEvent() and I want to wake it up from another thread.
I guess I could touch one of the files being monitored but that seems very crude.

Answer 1

Instead of using FAMNextEvent directly, how about using select or poll on

• FAMCONNECTION_GETFD(FAMConnection)
  When it triggers, check FAMPending before calling FAMNextEvent.
• a self-pipe

The thread will wait for either a FAM event or a byte written to the self-pipe.