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bug#51146: 29.0.50; file-notify-add-watch not reporting changes of files
From: |
Michael Albinus |
Subject: |
bug#51146: 29.0.50; file-notify-add-watch not reporting changes of files |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Oct 2021 09:45:23 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita2@gmail.com> writes:
> That was about kqueue, but in macOS there is the FSEvents monitor:
>
> The FSEvents monitor, available only on Apple macOS, has no known
> limitations and scales very well with the number of files being
> observed. In fact, I observed no performance degradation when testing
> fswatch observing changes on a filesystem of 500 GB over long periods
> of time. This is the default monitor on Apple macOS.
>
> So this seems to be an option, either directly or through fswatch.
Of course. I wrote the Emacs kqueue support on top of FreeBSD. Likely, I
won't write something macOS specific, since I have no respective
machine, and I'm not interested in. Somebody else must do the job, if
required.
(And I will analyze your bug report in detail next days, as time permits).
Best regards, Michael.
bug#51146: 29.0.50; file-notify-add-watch not reporting changes of files, Michael Albinus, 2021/10/15