Unix.EOPNOTSUPP on arm64

[Guiraud]

Unix.EOPNOTSUPP on arm64

[nilsbecker]

thanks for the workaround. i found i had to tweak it slightly to make it more robust. i use this bash function now

slipwatch() {
	# a workaround for the missing watch functionality
	fswatch --print0 --event Updated "$1"  | xargs -0 -n 1 slipshow
}

[panglesd]

Thanks for trying slipshow and sorry for the issue! My lack of knowledge of MacOS is guilty here...

Apparently, inotify (the utility that I use to watch changes on the source file) is a Linux only utility. Which is why it does not work on Mac...
I should have used the fswatch library, which is cross platform.

One workaround (until I fix this) is to use fswatch (the binary). From what I understand, the syntax would be in your case:

$ fswatch --event Updated file.md | xargs -n 1 slipshow

(the --event is here to prevent some infinite loop where the call of slipshow file.md is caught by fswatch to trigger a new slipshow file.md...)

However, that is a workaround for the --watch argument, not the --serve. So you will have to reload file in the browser to see the changes, or find a workaround for --serve as well... Maybe the live-reload js library?