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Re: file watch feature missing on darwin
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Rüdiger Sonderfeld |
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Re: file watch feature missing on darwin |
Date: |
Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:37:44 +0100 |
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Michael Albinus <address@hidden> wrote:
>Jan Djärv <address@hidden> writes:
>Well, I didn't know that. So we need a native kqueue integration into
>Emacs.
Kqueue's file notify support is extremely bad. I've looked into it when i
wrote the inotify support. I don't think we can implement all the features
without some major hacks. That's why using glib seems like a good idea because
it does all it can do to support that broken api. It should work on *BSD and
tough luck to the non-free folks. Reimplementing it in Emacs seems like a big
maintenance hassle. Maybe we can copy the necessary parts from glib if we
really care enough about supporting non-free software.
Regards
Rüdiger