implement kqueue watch method for MacOS and BSD #650
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As discussed in previous threads, kqueue is really a crippled API comparing to inotify, and has a few problems with this task. Here is how I workaround its limitations.
I tested my impl on FreeBSD & MacOS, and it works fine. This also removes the limitation that it depends on super user & internal xnu interface, which is my initial motivation (to use this project with mbp). Personally I take this as a chance to practice using kqueue as well, so please help me if I messed up sth bleh 😺 .