[Unison-hackers] File watcher process for BSD

Matt McClure matt at matthewlmcclure.com
Fri Aug 21 13:38:28 EDT 2015


Is fsmonitor.py sufficient?

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Chris Stankevitz <chris at stankevitz.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there a "file watcher process" (FWP) for FreeBSD?  If not, I volunteer
> to make one using kqueue.
>
> Does unison only ask the FWP to monitor directories?  If so, then I think
> kqueue's kern.maxfiles limit will not be an issue.  On my system
> kern.maxfiles is ~2 million.
>
> When using '-repeat watch', how does unison discover the PID of the FWP?
> Or, if unison launches the FWP, how does unison learn the FWP's name?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Chris
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