go-godo / godo

golang build tool in the spirt of rake, gulp
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too many files open on Mac #18

Closed mgutz closed 9 years ago

mgutz commented 9 years ago

It's an issue with fsnotify. The band aid is to increase the maximum number of open files with ulimit, which is a good practice anyway for development. The real fix is to move away from fsnotify and use polling to calculate differences in a watched directory.