fswatch is a cross-platform, file change monitor that gets notification alerts when the contents of the specified files or directories are altered or modified.
It executes four types of monitors on different operating systems such as:
- A monitor build on the File System Events API of Apple OS X.
- A monitor based on kqueue, a notification interface present in FreeBSD 4.1 also supported on many *BSD systems, OS X inclusive.
- A monitor based on File Events Notification API of the Solaris kernel plus its spin-offs. …
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