[Mono-osx] An open letter to the OS X Mono group.

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> Is System.IO.FileSystemWatcher not a supported feature then? As  
> reported, it is not working fine:
> http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=80564
> Yet no-one is showing any interest in helping me fix this for Mac OS  
> X... I needed to move part of my application to a Solaris server  
> instead.

We do not have file monitoring code for Solaris (other than polling,
which is not really great).

Your best chance here is to use inotify on Linux, or build Mono for
Linux and hope that Solaris' Linux emulation has a complete
implementation of inotify and run the Linux executables there.

Miguel.