[Tahoe-LAFS] #1432: Magic Folder on Mac OS X and other BSDs

[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn]

Way to go! Exciting.
On Apr 16, 2016 09:46, "Tahoe-LAFS" <trac at tahoe-lafs.org> wrote:

> #1432: Magic Folder on Mac OS X and other BSDs
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>      Reporter:  davidsarah           |      Owner:
>          Type:  enhancement          |     Status:  new
>      Priority:  normal               |  Milestone:  undecided
>     Component:  code-frontend-       |    Version:  1.8.2
>   magic-folder                       |   Keywords:  fsevents mac bsd magic-
>    Resolution:                       |  folder
> Launchpad Bug:                       |
> -------------------------------------+-------------------------------------
>
> Comment (by dawuud):
>
>  this actually is a BSD compatibility change since getting magic-folder to
>  work with this watchdog based inotify API actually makes it work on all
>  the BSD operating systems using kqueue and it should also work on Mac OS X
>  using the native apple filesystem events api.
>
>  we could of course replace it with two ctypes based inotify APIs. one for
>  kqueue and one for Mac OS X fs events api...
>
>  currently there are only two or three unit tests that fail and these
>  failures are not so terrible... it fails because it's emitting more events
>  than the unit tests expect.
>
> --
> Ticket URL: <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1432#comment:22
> >
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