Hi,

On 06/02/2015 02:21 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> As far as I can tell, libuv on OS X uses FSEvents to watch directories
> but kqueue to watch files, resulting in one open fd per watched file.
>  Combined with OS X's insanely small default fd table, this makes it
> tough to build a dropbox style sync utility on top of libuv.
>

FAIS we still open an fd when FSEvents is used, which should be solvable.

> The FSEvents doc says that since 10.7, FSEvents can watch files as well
> as directories.  But the libuv code still seems to test for S_IFDIR and
> otherwise goto fallback (kqueue).
> 
> I'm wondering whether a pure FSEvents file watcher isn't in libuv
> because it wouldn't work for some reason, or because it's just a low
> priority.  If the latter, I'd be happy to try and come up with a patch.
> 

Fedor can probably give you a better answer, but probably it has to do
with the fact that OSX < 10.7 is still supported (ish). Personally, I'm
open to the debate of dumping support for OSX < 10.8, but we should
probably preserve it in v1.x, dumping it in master should be fine though.

You're more than welcome to write a patch for it and improve it, of course!


Cheers,

-- 
Saúl Ibarra Corretgé
bettercallsaghul.com


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