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29.0.50; file-notify-add-watch not reporting changes of files

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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 51146 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51146: 29.0.50; file-notify-add-watch not reporting changes of files
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 09:45:23 +0200

Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita2 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

Of course. I wrote the Emacs kqueue support on top of FreeBSD. Likely, I
won't write something macOS specific, since I have no respective
machine, and I'm not interested in. Somebody else must do the job, if
required.

(And I will analyze your bug report in detail next days, as time permits).

Best regards, Michael.

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