On 2024/10/03 15:18, Sebastien Marie wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to import textproc/fswatch (instead of having it in > mystuff), a program and library to monitor file changes in > cross-platform way (it is using kqueue on OpenBSD).
textproc doesn't feel quite right - what do you think about sysutils (where it will be alongside sysutils/entr which does a similar thing)? > I am using it with a build system (dune, for ocaml) which could using it > for monitor and rebuild files (I am using dune directly from opam and > not from devel/dune). > > > $ cat pkg/DESCR > fswatch main features are: Maybe start with a tiny description like fswatch monitora files and directory trees for changes. Main features are: otherwise ok with me. > > - Support for many OS-specific APIs such as kevent, inotify, and FSEvents. > - Recursive directory monitoring. > - Path filtering using including and excluding regular expressions. > - Customizable record format. > - Support for periodic idle events. > > Limitations: > > The kqueue monitor, available on any *BSD system featuring kqueue, requires a > file descriptor to be opened for every file being watched. As a result, this > monitor scales badly with the number of files being observed, and may begin to > misbehave as soon as the fswatch process runs out of file descriptors. In this > case, fswatch dumps one error on standard error for every file that cannot be > opened. > > > Comments or OK to import ? > -- > Sebastien Marie
