Does it keep working when files get overwritten by moving another over it, like some Linux text editors do?
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#13How does this work under the covers on Linux? Is it using eBPF, or is it simply an abstraction over inotify? I'm particularly interested in something like this, but which will include information about what process made the change, and which user it was running as at the time.
>or is it simply an abstraction over inotify?
Looks like it:
https://github.com/e-dant/watcher/blob/989147b183ee0547d71a1...
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
All are supported. Although, to be more efficient, I need to write system API calls for Windows. That will be the 1.0 release.
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They were responding to a comment asking about Linux, MacOS, and Windows support.
Needless pedantry is one thing, but deliberately misconstruing a discussion to support said pedantry is sad.
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#15Looks like it does exactly what you can get out of Everything (https://www.voidtools.com) Index Journal
https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9792
but programmatically and its highly scriptable, pretty cool. Will definitely add it to my arsenal of troubleshooting tools.
Edit: never mind, This tool is manually scanning the filesystem instead of listening to OS events https://github.com/e-dant/watcher/blob/989147b183ee0547d71a1...
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#16Looking at Win32, it scans the whole directory periodically, right? I must miss something, but how can that be called efficient?
Wait, it doesnt hook the OS file handling routines? it actually manually rescans the filesystem?
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#17Looks like it does exactly what you can get out of Everything ( https://www.voidtools.com ) Index Journal https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9792 but programmatically and its highly scriptable, pretty cool. Will definitely add it to my arsenal of troubleshooting tools. Edit: never mind, This tool is manually scanning the filesystem instead of listening to OS events https://github.com/e-dant/watcher/blob/…
Voidtools gives security warnings in my browser, fwiw.
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#18Looks like it does exactly what you can get out of Everything ( https://www.voidtools.com ) Index Journal https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9792 but programmatically and its highly scriptable, pretty cool. Will definitely add it to my arsenal of troubleshooting tools. Edit: never mind, This tool is manually scanning the filesystem instead of listening to OS events https://github.com/e-dant/watcher/blob/…
Voidtools gives security warnings in my browser, fwiw.
Of course it does, its competing with Microsoft by providing actually working instant local search.
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#19See also:
sane - for node
watchexec - rust based, static binary