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diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn index cae629809..9d3db9192 100644 --- a/doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn +++ b/doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn @@ -58,6 +58,35 @@ I'd also like to support OSX and if possible the BSDs. * Windows has a Win32 ReadDirectoryChangesW, and perhaps other things. +## beyond Linux + +I'd also like to support OSX and if possible the BSDs. + +* kqueue ([haskell bindings](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/kqueue)) + is supported by FreeBSD, OSX, and other BSDs. + + From what I can find, kqueue does not provide full directory watching + capabilities. To watch a file, you have to have an open file descriptor + to the file. This wouldn't scale. + + Gamin does the best it can with just kqueue, supplimented by polling. + The source file `server/gam_kqueue.c` makes for interesting reading. + Using gamin to do the heavy lifting is one option. + ([haskell bindings](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hlibfam) for FAM; + gamin shares the API) + +* hfsevents ([haskell bindings](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hfsevents)) + is OSX specific. + + Originally it was only directory level, and you were only told a + directory had changed and not which file. Based on the haskell + binding's code, from OSX 10.7.0, file level events were added. + + This will be harder for me to develop for, since I don't have access to + OSX machines.. + +* Windows has a Win32 ReadDirectoryChangesW, and perhaps other things. + ## todo - Support OSes other than Linux; it only uses inotify currently. |