Talk:FSEvents

Latest comment: 2 years ago by Jan200101 in topic Does not watch file system?

Does not watch file system?

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> **Until Mac OS X 10.7, FSEvents did not "watch" the filesystem…**

This is an absurd and obviously incorrect way of stating something, but I'm not sure what is being said. Anyone? --Steven Fisher (talk) 20:03, 8 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

Yes, that's a confusingly written sentence. Basically, OS X 10.7 added the flag kFSEventStreamCreateFlagFileEvents, which lets you receive file-level events, rather than directory-level events.
In 10.5, when the user changed file "Documents/GroceryList.doc", fsevents reported "something in the Documents/ folder was modified". In 10.7 and later, when this flag is used, then fsevents will report "the file Documents/GroceryList.doc was modified". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.109.61.123 (talk) 01:40, 18 April 2017 (UTC)Reply
It does not help that the the citation has long since expired.
I've gone ahead and added an archive source, I'll leave the decision to change section to someon eelse Jan200101 (talk) 18:43, 5 December 2021 (UTC)Reply