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What operating system APIs does the Dropbox desktop daemon use to watch for local file modifications with low CPU overhead?
A
Polling the entire hard drive every 500ms
B
Kernel event notification APIs (fsevents on macOS, inotify on Linux, ReadDirectoryChangesW on Windows)
C
Screen recording the user's desktop
D
Running a local Python web server
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