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doc: add info on what's used for fswatch on AIX
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Info is provided on for the other OS's. Add similar
level of info for AIX.

PR-URL: #6837
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Santiago Gimeno <santiago.gimeno@gmail.com>
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mhdawson authored and Myles Borins committed Jul 12, 2016
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* On OS X, this uses `kqueue` for files and 'FSEvents' for directories.
* On SunOS systems (including Solaris and SmartOS), this uses `event ports`.
* On Windows systems, this feature depends on `ReadDirectoryChangesW`.
* On Aix systems, this feature depends on `AHAFS`, which must be enabled.

If the underlying functionality is not available for some reason, then
`fs.watch` will not be able to function. For example, watching files or
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