"Instantaneous Notification" on OS X
Bryan O'Sullivan
bos at serpentine.com
Tue Mar 18 10:32:50 CDT 2008
Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> On the other hand, we don't have to run our own daemon, which is something of an
> advantage and makes a lot of things easier.
Both inotify and FSEvents *require* a persistent process to receive
notifications. I'm sure the Windows API does, too.
> I wonder if making inotify work on OS X 10.5 wouldn't be to little
> work to do in a whole summer (we should make your project worth Google's money).
It's definitely a substantial project. The existing inotify extension
is intimately aware of the workings of the inotify API. It will be a
lot of work to bring another API on board.
- Splitting the code cleanly into OS-dependent and portable layers.
- Maintaining correctness and performance.
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