diff --git a/tailer/fswatcher/fseventProducerLoop_darwin.go b/tailer/fswatcher/fseventProducerLoop_darwin.go
index 3d7bce43..34f24247 100644
--- a/tailer/fswatcher/fseventProducerLoop_darwin.go
+++ b/tailer/fswatcher/fseventProducerLoop_darwin.go
@@ -26,8 +26,6 @@ type keventloop struct {
 	done   chan struct{}
 }
 
-type Kevent syscall.Kevent_t
-
 // Terminate the kevent loop.
 // If the loop hangs in syscall.Kevent(), it will keep hanging there until the next event is read.
 // Therefore, after the consumer called Close(), it should interrupt the kevent() call by closing the kq descriptor.
@@ -86,7 +84,7 @@ func runKeventLoop(kq int) *keventloop {
 	return result
 }
 
-func (event Kevent) String() string {
+func event2string(event syscall.Kevent_t) string {
 	result := make([]string, 0, 1)
 	if event.Fflags&syscall.NOTE_DELETE == syscall.NOTE_DELETE {
 		result = append(result, "NOTE_DELETE")
diff --git a/tailer/fswatcher/fswatcher_darwin.go b/tailer/fswatcher/fswatcher_darwin.go
index 875bf246..43639e06 100644
--- a/tailer/fswatcher/fswatcher_darwin.go
+++ b/tailer/fswatcher/fswatcher_darwin.go
@@ -120,20 +120,20 @@ func (w *watcher) processEvent(t *fileTailer, event fsevent, log logrus.FieldLog
 	for _, dir = range t.watchedDirs {
 		if kevent.Ident == fdToInt(dir.file.Fd()) {
 			dirLogger = log.WithField("directory", dir.file.Name())
-			dirLogger.Debugf("dir event: %v", kevent)
+			dirLogger.Debugf("dir event: %v", event2string(kevent))
 			return w.processDirEvent(t, kevent, dir, dirLogger)
 		}
 	}
 	for _, file = range t.watchedFiles {
 		if kevent.Ident == fdToInt(file.file.Fd()) {
 			fileLogger = log.WithField("file", file.file.Name()).WithField("fd", file.file.Fd())
-			fileLogger.Debugf("file event: %v", kevent)
+			fileLogger.Debugf("file event: %v", event2string(kevent))
 			return w.processFileEvent(t, kevent, file, fileLogger)
 		}
 	}
 	// Events for unknown file descriptors are ignored. This might happen if syncFilesInDir() already
 	// closed a file while a pending event is still coming in.
-	log.Debugf("event for unknown file descriptor %v: %v", kevent.Ident, kevent)
+	log.Debugf("event for unknown file descriptor %v: %v", kevent.Ident, event2string(kevent))
 	return nil
 }