| Also interested in the response to the parent (loeg) > facing many of the same difficulties that prompted the Windows team to just run Linux in a hypervisor If by difficulties, you mean implementing system calls, this is being kept tabs on here: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Linuxulator One that comes to mind is FreeBSD's kqueue, which opens a file descriptor for every file watched [1] So inotify, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch isn't started. Lots of applications need watching of changes on directories. Even plain old FreeBSD gets messed since a large webpack project is going to chew up way too much. If you're interested in this type of system call across operating systems check out https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch On WSL1/2: Namely in WSL1, there were serious issues with package systems like npm, node_modules/ would have file descriptors get clogged, and it took a full system reboot to get WSL working again: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/1529. WSL2 Fixes it. [1] https://emcrisostomo.github.io/fswatch/doc/1.8.0/fswatch.htm... See Freebsd -> kqueue -> Peculiarities |