diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn
index 0b55298a30..fb9ed592bb 100644
--- a/doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn
+++ b/doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ There is a `watch` branch in git that adds the command.
 
 * Kqueue has to open every directory it watches, so too many directories
   will run it out of the max number of open files (typically 1024), and fail.
+  I may need to fork off multiple watcher processes to handle this.
 
 ## beyond Linux