On 2021/12/01 22:15, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > At the time of import we did not want it to be picked up automatically by > random ports. Because we weren’t sure about the quality of it versus other > local implementation of watchers in the applications themselves. > There were issues at the time, random locks, fd exhaustion etc. > > Things may be better now.
Also even if it's working correctly, it results in software using a huge number of FDs, due to how file monitoring works with kqueue (I think this is not a problem with Linux's implementation). So sometimes a poll-based mechanism might be preferable.
