Pls add support for macos and other unix systems

seb-m / pyinotify

Monitoring filesystems events with inotify on Linux.

http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify/wiki

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Pls add support for macos and other unix systems #186

Open ah1102 opened 4 years ago

ah1102 commented 4 years ago

Please add support for macos and other unix systems (FreeBSD, OpenBSD...)

ookull commented 4 years ago

This is not possible as pyinotify relies on a Linux Kernel feature called inotify. MacOS uses event notification interface called kqueue. Try to use watchdog, a higher level file system event monitoring module.