well, some OSes allow subscribing to the notifications from filesystem *bsd (including macos-x) use kqueue, linux and winnt have different mechanisms for the same thing
The question is how expensive are those notifications - i.e. if one has 1000 of them, will it be a trouble for the OS?
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