From 3b5810463e7c39b0a8e2856c996faf454a6ca1f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Abdirahim Musse <33973272+abmusse@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:32:58 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] feat: always use polling on IBM i

IBM i does not support fs.watch

https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html#caveats

Therefore we always want to use polling on IBM i systems
---
 lib/monitor/watch.js | 4 ++++
 lib/utils/index.js   | 1 +
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/monitor/watch.js b/lib/monitor/watch.js
index 1ef14086..8ee41f0a 100644
--- a/lib/monitor/watch.js
+++ b/lib/monitor/watch.js
@@ -69,6 +69,10 @@ function watch() {
       watchOptions.disableGlobbing = true;
     }
 
+    if (utils.isIBMi) {
+      watchOptions.usePolling = true;
+    }
+
     if (process.env.TEST) {
       watchOptions.useFsEvents = false;
     }
diff --git a/lib/utils/index.js b/lib/utils/index.js
index c4803383..92651216 100644
--- a/lib/utils/index.js
+++ b/lib/utils/index.js
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ var utils = (module.exports = {
   isWindows: process.platform === 'win32',
   isMac: process.platform === 'darwin',
   isLinux: process.platform === 'linux',
+  isIBMi: require('os').type() === 'OS400',
   isRequired: (function () {
     var p = module.parent;
     while (p) {