file system change notifications

[Kim Shrier]

On Mar 11, 2015, at 1:14 PM, Ivan Krivonos <int0dster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Have not read this paper, but why just don`t kqueue() ?
> 

Apparently, you have to have a file descriptor for every file you want to
monitor, if I read things right.  This is prohibitive with 100,000+ files.
It also means that you cannot unmount a file system if you are monitoring
any files in it, since the file system is considered busy.

Kim