in reply to Re^2: How to do a blocking readdir or similar
in thread How to do a blocking readdir or similar
OS X (which the OP was using) shares more with FreeBSD than Linux, so IO::KQueue is probably a more appropriate choice.
From the README...
This module is a low level interface to the FreeBSD and Mac OS X kqueue() system call. This is basically equivalent to epoll() on Linux - a high performance poll() replacement.
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