Initial import of fam-2.6.7, a file alteration monitor.

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+  FAM, the File Alteration Monitor, provides an API which applications
+can use to be notified when specific files or directories are changed.
+
+  FAM comes in two parts: fam, the daemon which listens for requests and
+delivers notification, and libfam, a library which client applications can
+use to communicate with fam.
+
+  If the monitored files are mounted from a remote host, the local FAM
+will attempt to contact FAM on the remote host, and will pass the requests
+on to the remote FAM.
+
+  FAM can also notify its clients when a file starts and stops execution.
+(The IRIX Interactive Desktop uses this to change a program's icon while
+it's running, for example.)
+
+  FAM was originally written for IRIX in 1989 by Bruce Karsh, and was
+rewritten in 1995 by Bob Miller.  This open-source release of FAM builds
+and runs on NetBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, and IRIX, and is the same FAM that
+will be included with IRIX 6.5.8.