Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate

[Noam Postavsky]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Perry E. Metzger <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 21:32:30 +0100 Rüdiger Sonderfeld
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Glib already seems to use several hacks to work around the
>> limitations of kqueue
>
> As a aside: people keep mentioning that they believe kqueue has some
> sort of fundamental limitations. I'm curious what those are perceived
> to be. So far as I can tell, the interface is fine -- it is a rough
> equivalent to what you can do in Linux with epoll (which is currently
> preferred over select and its successors).

I don't know the details, but I gathered the limitations are relative
to *inotify*. Presumably epoll would also be a poor substitute for
inotify, which is why Linux has both.