alt Hacker NewsSee comment below - Darwin silently drops same-process notifs. I could change the behavior depending on same vs cross process and platform but I wanted to”just one thing to worry about”. Potentially a good optimization later. Would help reduce syscalls.
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Retr0id • yesterday at 8:58 PM
I believe you are mistaken. If you are referring to the comment from ArielTM, that's an LLM bot regurgitating your readme.
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I have no idea why they aren't using kqueue but that works on macOS and FreeBSD. It has for years.
You want EVFILT_VNODE with NOTE_WRITE. That's hooked up to VNOP_WRITE in the kernel, the call made to the relevant filesystem to actually perform the write.