Re: OSX FSEvents file watching support

[Michael Albinus]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> 3. Publish an elisp package that calls out to an existing program
>> that supports FSEvents like "fswatch". This
>> approach probably has the least friction, but doesn't allow for
>> tweaking FSEvents settings, and might have
>> performance disadvantages.
>
> How would that work, implementation-wise?  Filesystem events are
> supposed to be eventually injected into the input queue; how would you
> go about doing that when an external porgram does the watching?

Tramp mimics this by calling the respective special event filter function
file-notify-handle-event. See tramp-sh-inotifywait-process-filter and
tramp-sh-gio-monitor-process-filter.

Best regards, Michael.