Questions tagged [fsevents]
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Memory Leak in fsevents watcher in Mac OS X
I need file system notifications in Mac OS X and i'm reading from /dev/fsevents. A Sample code of capturing fsevents in Mac OS X : http://www.codecollector.net/view/1066/raw_fsevents. In this code, you can see the buffer read from /dev/fsevents is…
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OS X and FSEvents: How do you release a callback pointer supplied to an FSEventStreamRef?
I'm using FSEvents to monitor a directory, and whenever the directory changes I call a block which I originally passed into the FSEventStreamContext of the FSEventStreamRef. How do I release the block when it is time to stop monitoring the…
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What's the minimum version of OS X that supports File System Events?
I'd like to use FSEvents aka File System Events to listen to changes to the contents of a folder hierarchy. In my tests, File System Events does a superb job. However I can't find info as to whether it works on Tiger.
Anyone know?
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Cocoa File-/Directory Watch Library available?
I know that there is the FSEvents Api and some Spotlight API to create a File- / Directory Watcher. I also know that there are some ObjC wrappers for FSEvents like CDEvents but is there anywhere a complete Cocoa Library for File-/Folder Watching? I…
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Do i need Administrator privileges to Monitor files in Mac using FSEvents
I'm trying to get the File System Event notifications in Mac for my Application. When i was googling about FSEvents, noticed Dropbox is also using FSEvents and it's asking for administrator privileges to run "dbfseventsd" process. Do i also need to…
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File Watcher in Cocoa
Hai all, I am developing an application in cocoa.I want to constantly check whether the contents of a file in a particular location is changed or not (like FileSystemWatcher in .NET).Please anyone give me a solution.I used FSEvent but it monitors…
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Is there a definitive list of FSEvents event flags?
I've been searching but cannot find a definitive list. I'm logging certain events and I'm not sure what they are - would be very useful to have a lookup table to be able to see more clearly what's going on.
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npm install fsevents on ubuntu says unsupported platform
When i try npm install fsevents I get
Unsupported platform for fsevents@2.1.2:
wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})
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webpack: Failed to compile.
The server does start at localhost:4200
but all `get`s fails…
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