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6.3 Darwin (Mac OS X)

Essentially the same as BSD. The main difference compared to Linux and BSD is that on Darwin the watchers are set after disconnecting from the controlling terminal, because Darwin lacks the rfork call and the event queue cannot be inherited by the child process.