Bug#846401: ITP: fswatch -- File change monitor that receives notifications on file or directory changes
Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@debian.org> writes:
> On 1 Dec 2016 00:36, "Alf Gaida" <agaida@siduction.org> wrote:
>> fswatch is a file change monitor that receives notifications when the
>> contents of the specified
>
> systemd has native path units for inotify already. Are you packaging this
> just for kfreebsd? If packaging for Linux too - why not simply use systemd
> units?
Your suggestion will not help when trying to deploy a solution to a
heterogenous network, due to systemd's inexistent portability. Quite
unlike fswatch, which promises to run on many types of kernels.
- Carsten
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