Re: file watch feature missing on darwin

[Jan Djärv]

Hello.

30 dec 2013 kl. 10:08 skrev Michael Albinus <address@hidden>:

> Leo Liu <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Hi there,
> 
> Hi Leo,
> 
>> Any reason this feature is not implemented for darwin? Thanks.
> 
> The native file monitoring library for BSD-like systems is kqueue. Support
> to Emacs is not added due to a lack of a volunteer who implements
> it. Feel free to do the job :-) I would be happy to add a kqueue
> interface into filenotify.el.
> 
> According to the Changelogs, kqueue has been added as native library to
> GIO a year a go. If you have linked Emacs to a recent (*) glib on your
> Darwin system, file monitoring shall be available for you.

It would not work if linking in Glib to a NS build due to differences in event 
loops.

        Jan D.