fs.watch() unreliable

[clementfarabet]

fs.watch apparently doesn't work on certain OSes, in particular OSX Snow Leopard. Should we rewrite part to have no dependence on fs.watch?

[soumith]

I think backward support is really tricky. Snow Leopard was quite a long ago.

[soumith]

The doc says:

You can still use fs.watchFile, which uses stat polling, but it is slower and less reliable.

I think that could be a fall-back without doing any big changes.

[clementfarabet]

OK makes sense

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Soumith Chintala <[email protected]

wrote:

The doc says:

You can still use fs.watchFile, which uses stat polling, but it is slower
and less reliable.

I think that could be a fall-back without doing any big changes.

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[soumith]

#15 fixes this issue.