Issue posted, https://github.com/libuv/libuv/issues/387.  Thanks!

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Fedor Indutny <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yeah, the compatibility is a problem as usual.
>
> It sounds very interesting to explore it behind the v1.x, maybe I'll work
> on it if someone will create an issue on github and cc me ;)
>
> Thank you for asking this!
>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Curtis Yarvin <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, it looks like that fd is opened just because there's an fd field in
>> the handle and otherwise it could get lonely ;-)
>>
>> There are already OSX version ifdefs in the code so another probably
>> won't hurt.  Glad to hear this problem exists only because it's a low
>> priority and not because there's a fundamental obstacle.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 12:50 AM, Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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,
>>>
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>>>
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