On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Marc Lehmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't know of any additional syscalls that could be used to implement > that > (kqueue afaik can't, neither can similar mechanisms, afaik). as simple as > ev_stat watchers seem, only inotify seems to be powerful enough to > implement > them. > For what it's worth the EventMachine library (a Ruby library with a custom C++ native extension) supports kqueue for filesystem events, although I don't know what platforms they use it on or how reliable it is. Apple claims kqueue can be used for filesystem monitoring, in addition to their own proprietary fsevents API: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/FSEvents_ProgGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html OS X is may main platform of interest here, if you haven't inferred that already. -- Tony Arcieri Medioh/Nagravision
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