Platform Support — macOS
Modern macOS versions are fully supported. On macOS 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8, the default event loop uses selectors.KqueueSelector, which does not support character devices on these versions. The SelectorEventLoop can be manually configured to use ~selectors.SelectSelector or ~selectors.PollSelector to s
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Modern macOS versions are fully supported.
On macOS 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8, the default event loop uses selectors.KqueueSelector, which does not support character devices on these versions. The SelectorEventLoop can be manually configured to use ~selectors.SelectSelector or ~selectors.PollSelector to support character devices on these older versions of macOS. Example
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