From 8bdb331b60d44ad0ea1d01fe355044463e0b9af1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:17:06 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] bug

---
 doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn
index 234a52a65a..0b55298a30 100644
--- a/doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn
+++ b/doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ There is a `watch` branch in git that adds the command.
   cannot track file closes. Need to go back and check these files every
   second or something.
 
+* 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.
+
 ## beyond Linux
 
 I'd also like to support OSX and if possible the BSDs.