GNU bug report logs - #51146
29.0.50; file-notify-add-watch not reporting changes of files

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita2 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 04:18:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita2 <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 51146 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51146: 29.0.50; file-notify-add-watch not reporting changes of files
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 11:52:20 -0300

That was about kqueue, but in macOS there is the FSEvents monitor:

   The FSEvents monitor, available only on Apple macOS, has no known
   limitations and scales very well with the number of files being
   observed. In fact, I observed no performance degradation when testing
   fswatch observing changes on a filesystem of 500 GB over long periods
   of time. This is the default monitor on Apple macOS.

So this seems to be an option, either directly or through fswatch.
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