Detecting file changes on macOS with kqueue

 (vegardstikbakke.com)

36 points | by benhoyt 4 days ago

4 comments

  • WhyNotHugo 23 minutes ago
    kqueue is quite portable and works across all the BSDs.

    The OpenBSD documentation for it is top notch, as usual. No idea about the rest (I suspect they’ve all converged at this point).

  • justanotherunit 26 minutes ago
    Love it. Are there any benchmarks available on how fast this is from file change, kernel event received, event dispatched? I would expect it to be really quick.
  • somat 1 hour ago
    I love small personal projects like this, especially their writeups. I always have a hard time learning unless I am actually using it for something.

    For more software in this domain see also the excellent entr https://eradman.com/entrproject/

  • lzhgusapp 43 minutes ago
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