On Thu Dec 02, 2021 at 05:03:13PM +0300, Kirill Bychkov wrote: > On Thu, December 2, 2021 16:06, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > 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. > > > > > Should we add a comment about this? This is not the first time that question > is asked. >
I would very much welcome it.
