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by stephenr 4701 days ago
A better approach surely would be to wrap inotify/osx fsevents
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That's what incron does...
On Linux yes, it doesn't exist on osx though. My point was that the author could have written his tool as cross platform without relying on an 'ls' every 100ms, by using the platform tools availble