From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: file watch feature missing on darwin
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 15:44:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A009B3AE-BF38-48E2-94D5-E5DA4B09055D@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sitahfjc.fsf@gmx.de>
Hello.
30 dec 2013 kl. 10:08 skrev Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>:
> Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi there,
>
> Hi Leo,
>
>> Any reason this feature is not implemented for darwin? Thanks.
>
> The native file monitoring library for BSD-like systems is kqueue. Support
> to Emacs is not added due to a lack of a volunteer who implements
> it. Feel free to do the job :-) I would be happy to add a kqueue
> interface into filenotify.el.
>
> According to the Changelogs, kqueue has been added as native library to
> GIO a year a go. If you have linked Emacs to a recent (*) glib on your
> Darwin system, file monitoring shall be available for you.
It would not work if linking in Glib to a NS build due to differences in event loops.
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-30 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-30 1:45 file watch feature missing on darwin Leo Liu
2013-12-30 9:08 ` Michael Albinus
2013-12-30 14:44 ` Jan Djärv [this message]
2013-12-30 15:12 ` Michael Albinus
2013-12-30 15:30 ` Jan Djärv
2013-12-30 16:56 ` Michael Albinus
2014-01-17 12:10 ` Michael Albinus
2014-01-22 9:00 ` Jan D.
2014-01-22 9:56 ` Michael Albinus
2013-12-31 0:22 ` Leo Liu
2013-12-31 11:37 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
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