Nix on macOS - Public Room Timeline

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Sender	Message	Time
22 Dec 2025
Ihar Hrachyshka	maybe the original reasoning documented in the comment is no longer applicable, but tap device polling is still an issue.	15:55:30
Randy Eckenrode	Maybe it only works on newer macOS?	15:57:29
hexa	it's a bit surprising that nix-darwin does not have a system.autoUpgrade like option 🤔	15:58:04
hexa	what I need is to keep the machines in sync with a flake ref	15:58:43
Randy Eckenrode	The test is whether it supports devices. According to POSIX: The `poll()` and `ppoll()` functions shall support regular files, terminal and pseudo-terminal devices, FIFOs, pipes, and sockets. The behavior of `poll()` and `ppoll()` on elements of fds that refer to other types of file is unspecified.	16:00:23
Randy Eckenrode	So it doesn’t appear that it’s required to support devices other than (P)TTYs.	16:01:03
Ihar Hrachyshka	it's a gnu world...	16:01:17
Randy Eckenrode	If Glib does want to support that, they need emulation.	16:01:33