[Haskell-cafe] inotify-alike for mac os x?

Matt Morrow moonpatio at gmail.com
Fri Dec 4 18:03:00 EST 2009


Conal,

If I were looking to do this, I'd read the relevant parts of the libev code.

Matt


On 12/3/09, Conal Elliott <conal at conal.net> wrote:
> I'd like to make some FRPish toys that keep files updated to have functional
> relationships with other files.  hinotify looks like just the sort of
> underlying magic I could use for efficient implementation on linux.  Is
> there any support for mac os x?  Could support be either added to hinotify
> or maybe inotify and a mac-friendly library be abstracted into a common
> Haskell interface?  I'm fine with an imperative interface, since I can
> abstract into a functional library, which I guess would be a sort of
> persistent simplified FRP.
>
>    - Conal
>


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