BSD's should have kqueue equiv. to inotify

[gvdl]

On code inspection it seems that any OS that doesn't support notify for watching directories falls back to polling the directory for changes. It should be possible to use *BSD's kqueue infrastructure as a rough equivalent to inotify. Though not really, the OSX's implementation can tell you if a directory has changed but not which file within it, still at least we can at least stop polling.

Jordan I'm thinking of adding a lightweight thread to block on kqueue, then signal over to the main thread using a 'user' libevent. If it works it may be worth while investigating a similar implementation for inotify rather than the current block for one second solution.

[jordan]

gvdl, any news on this?

[jordan]

gvdl, ping

[mike.dld]

I think this could be closed in favour of work in progress patch in #5663.