Re: [PATCH update2] Support for filesystem watching (inotify)

[Rüdiger Sonderfeld]

Hi,

On Sunday 05 June 2011 17:59:03 John Yates wrote:
> Is there a good reason not to provide access to the full functionality of
> the inotify API?

Yes, the reason is portability. I want the same API to be available on Linux, 
*BSD, OS X and Windows. inotify is the most advanced API and therefore I can 
not support every inotify feature if I want to stay compatible.

Porting to kqueue (*BSD, OS X) will be especially troublesome because they 
don't seem to tell you which file actually changed if you watch a directory.

Regards,
Rüdiger