From aef98a6c7b84d0be08f62d7a8213e9722b7560de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Evan Phoenix <evan@fallingsnow.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 10:50:51 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Don't watch named pipes

You can't watch a named pipe, same as a socket. The call to `Open` will just hang forever.

closes #98
---
 CHANGELOG.md | 4 ++++
 kqueue.go    | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ea9428a..9b52489 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## master
+
+* kqueue: don't watch named pipes [#98](https://github.com/go-fsnotify/fsnotify/pull/98) (thanks @evanphx)
+
 ## v1.2.0 / 2015-02-08
 
 * inotify: use epoll to wake up readEvents [#66](https://github.com/go-fsnotify/fsnotify/pull/66) (thanks @PieterD)
diff --git a/kqueue.go b/kqueue.go
index 265622d..f8a364d 100644
--- a/kqueue.go
+++ b/kqueue.go
@@ -181,6 +181,11 @@ func (w *Watcher) addWatch(name string, flags uint32) error {
 			return nil
 		}
 
+		// Don't watch named pipes.
+		if fi.Mode()&os.ModeNamedPipe == os.ModeNamedPipe {
+			return nil
+		}
+
 		// Follow Symlinks
 		// Unfortunately, Linux can add bogus symlinks to watch list without
 		// issue, and Windows can't do symlinks period (AFAIK). To  maintain
-- 
2.50.1