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libinotify-20240724

kevent based inotify

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Description

This library provides inotify-compatible interface for applications that need to monitor changes happening in a filesystem. It can be useful when porting Linux applications, which often use inotify interface. The IN_OPEN, IN_CLOSE_WRITE and IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE events are not yet implemented, so the relevant tests are known to fail.

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Ports path
devel/libinotify
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Kirill Bychkov <kirby@openbsd.org>
Categories
devel
Available flavors
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