Take a broader approach to filtering out bogus Mac OS watcher events.

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 # Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 # for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 # BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 # Don't run any test-like files that show up in packages directories. It
 # shouldn't be necessary to run "pub install" in these packages, but if you do
 # it shouldn't break the tests.
 */packages/*/*: Skip
 */*/packages/*/*: Skip
 */*/*/packages/*/*: Skip
 */*/*/*/packages/*/*: Skip
 
 # Skip non-test files ending with "_test".
 scheduled_test/lib/*: Skip
 polymer/example/scoped_style/*: Skip
 
 scheduled_test/test/scheduled_server_test: Pass, Fail # 13524
 scheduled_test/test/scheduled_process_test: Pass, Slow # Issue 9231
 
 polymer/test/event_path_test: Pass, Fail # Issue 15766
 
 # Skip test not runnable via test.dart
 third_party/html5lib/test/dom_compat_test: Skip
 third_party/html5lib/test/browser/browser_test: Skip
 
 http/test/http_test: Pass, RuntimeError # Issue 15652
 
-[ $runtime == vm ]
-watcher/test/directory_watcher/mac_os_test: Pass,Fail # Issue 16079
-
 [ $compiler == dart2js ]
 collection/test/equality_test/01: Fail # Issue 1533
 collection/test/equality_test/02: Fail # Issue 1533
 collection/test/equality_test/03: Fail # Issue 1533
 collection/test/equality_test/04: Fail # Issue 1533
 collection/test/equality_test/05: Fail # Issue 1533
 collection/test/equality_test/none: Pass, Fail # Issue 14348
 third_party/angular_tests/browser_test: Pass, Slow # Large dart2js compile time
 third_party/angular_tests/browser_test/core/parser/parser: Fail # Issue 15915
 typed_data/test/typed_buffers_test/01: Fail # Not supporting Int64List, Uint64List.
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 collection/test/algorithms_test: PubGetError
 collection/test/iterable_zip_test: PubGetError
 collection/test/priority_queue_test: PubGetError
 collection/test/unmodifiable_collection_test: PubGetError
 collection/test/wrapper_test: PubGetError
 stack_trace/test/chain_test: PubGetError
 stack_trace/test/frame_test: PubGetError
 stack_trace/test/trace_test: PubGetError
 stack_trace/test/vm_test: PubGetError