[darcs-devel] [issue642] Automatic detection of file renames

[Jason Dagit]

On Feb 4, 2008 10:30 AM, Alexander Staubo <alex at purefiction.net> wrote:
>
> I would love to see someone use kernel facilities such as FSEvents [1]
> on OS X and inotify [2] on Linux to accomplish this. (There are also
> others such as fam [3], and Windows has its own easy-to-use API.)

I remember someone releasing a Haskell binding to inotify even:
http://haskell.org/~kolmodin/code/hinotify/README.html

Perhaps, someone could create a platform independent version of this
api that assumes a certain implementation on each platform.

Jason