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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2012-06-19 10:17:06 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2012-06-19 10:17:06 -0400
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@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ There is a `watch` branch in git that adds the command.
cannot track file closes. Need to go back and check these files every
second or something.
+* Kqueue has to open every directory it watches, so too many directories
+ will run it out of the max number of open files (typically 1024), and fail.
+
## beyond Linux
I'd also like to support OSX and if possible the BSDs.