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

Svein Ove Aas svein.ove at aas.no
Fri Dec 4 11:39:35 EST 2009


On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Ross Mellgren <rmm-haskell at z.odi.ac> wrote:
> kqueue is the "low level" interface, but requires that you handle all file
> system events as they happen, and fast.
>
For the purposes of creating a binding in haskell, my preferred way
would be to use the low-level interface and build saner abstractions
on top of that; it would be trivial to buffer them haskell-side.

That said.. you say you have to handle the events "fast". What happens
if you don't?

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Svein Ove Aas


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