Is there an option to get `inotify` to work in Rancher Deskt rancher-users #rancher-desktop

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quick-keyboard-83126

12/07/2022, 9:30 PM

Is there an option to get

inotify

to work in Rancher Desktop on macOS?

we're seeing java throw a

Function not implemented

when someone calls

inotifyInit

or something

https://github.com/swoval/swoval/issues/160#issuecomment-1341665704

incalculable-ghost-55080

12/09/2022, 2:34 PM

I think this issue is about what you described https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/1979

quick-keyboard-83126

12/09/2022, 4:53 PM

I saw that, it doesn't seem right. We're not asking for inotify events to come from the host. We're just asking for inotify to pretend to be available

We don't need inotify to ever fire events, it's just that these java modules die because they can't get inotify to initialize -- even though for a static build there's really no reason to notify about file system changes since it's just a build agent building a package once.

fast-garage-66093

12/09/2022, 9:36 PM

I think this is the same as In docker desktop preview, the inotify function fails on a container with platform set to linux/amd64. · Issue #5321 · docker/for-mac which says the only workaround is to use arm64 images instead.

It may be possible that this will work when using the Virtualization.Framework instead of QEMU, but I don't know.

quick-keyboard-83126

12/09/2022, 9:37 PM

Surely there's some way to just let it register and not do anything?

I don't want events I just want it to let the stupid thing ask for them

fast-garage-66093

12/09/2022, 9:38 PM

Either way, VF support is still under construction

Patch your app to use a mock for the function, if possible

Otherwise, it seems like a limitation of the emulator

Beyond that, I hope we soon have VF support (will require Ventura though), which should in general provide much better performance (and allow us to use Rosetta2 inside the VM to run amd64 binaries, instead of qemu-static).

quick-keyboard-83126

12/10/2022, 10:41 PM

My app is

sbt

on top of the linked

swoval

on top of the general Java Runtime. I personally feel that each of Java, swoval and sbt are buggy, but I don't expect any of them to be particularly cooperative in reasonable time. I wonder if there's a syscall wrapper thing available that could just lie to the jvm.

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