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Regarding ignore: I'm not sure if we want to introduce this as a direct dependency but I'm also on the fence how we could implement this in the most user...

> The specific use-case I'm having can't just blanket-ignore symlinks, unfortunately. Some of the directories in my `$HOME` that I'd want to watch are symlinks to other drives (think ex....

Ok if you want you can add this as a PR against main so it'll be added to an upcoming v5-pre release.

Otherwise I'll probably have to wait after #288 and #286 on my side to make myself a mental model of how I'd add this API and add it for every...

Also I'd probably want to add a "don't follow symlinks at all" option, which could come in handy.

Oh an if you want to do this PR by yourself you could feature-gate a ignore dependency or add an example how you can utilize this with the new API....

#210 is merged and fixes at least several deadlocks that also happens on linux, so my take would be to release a new version and see whether this resolves it...

4.0.14 is released, I'd appreciate feedback if this fixes the problem (or others..) as I can't test it on mac

What exactly would you expect to get from receiving all events as batch ? You can already do this by yourself with more control.

On v5 you could test if the macos_kqueue feature gives you a better result using the kqueue backend.