inotify support (was: auto-refresh TAGS file on ChangeLog mod?)

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:53:55 +0200 "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> 
wrote: 

LB(> Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:43:14 -0600 Tom Tromey <address@hidden> wrote: 
>> 
Tom> I've wanted to roll the retags idea into etags itself.  It could read
Tom> a ".retags" file, daemonize, and use inotify to watch for changes in a
Tom> directory tree.  I never found the time to do it though.
>> 
Ted> I'd like the solution to be implemented in Emacs, not externally.
>> 
Tom> Why is that?
>> 
>> I like to avoid external dependencies.

LB> It might be a good idea also since inotify is not cross-platform.
LB> (Implementing it in a way that is not cross-platform will tie up
LB> developers resources.)

So I don't waste effort on this, does anyone know of existing inotify
support in Emacs?  Are there any packages that can use such support?

Ted