[Unison-hackers] unison and inotify principle

[Benjamin Pierce]

No, FSEvents is probably better.  (I think I wrote that description  
of Unison's prototype functionality a while ago, before FSEvents was  
available.)

    - B


On Jun 7, 2008, at 1:31 PM, Guillaume Lessard wrote:
>
> 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...
>
> --
> Guillaume Lessard
> glessard at tffenterprises.com
>
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