[Unison-hackers] unison and inotify principle

[Guillaume Lessard]

On 08-06-04, at 07:38, Benjamin Pierce wrote:

>   Since I'm an OSX user, I'm particularly interested in writing a
>   watcher tool for this platform.  If anybody knows about
>   programming against the Spotlight API and can give me a hand,
>   that would be much appreciated.


Is there any reason to not use the simpler and less data-intensive  
FSEvents API?

It tells you about the particular directory in a tree where a file has  
changed; since unison is already adept at comparing directories, it  
should be quick unless the change happens to be in a directory with a  
large number of files...

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Guillaume Lessard
glessard at tffenterprises.com