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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
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Subject: Re: High polling frequency of public-inbox-watch
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Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> wrote:
> On 11.08.19 18:51, Eric Wong wrote:
> > Linux::Inotify2 on Linux which AFAIK all deb-based distros
> > will pull in,

Oops, I was wrong on that :x

> I was expecting inotify usage as well, but I'm not seeing that in strace, rather
> a long *stat series, and then nanosleep(2)... Hah!
> 
>     apt install liblinux-inotify2-perl
> 
> solved it. Did I miss a note in the readme?

Nope, but it should probably be noted as an optional dependency
in INSTALL, along with KQueue dependencies for *BSDs.