Ben Peart <benpeart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > @@ -344,6 +346,7 @@ struct index_state { > struct hashmap dir_hash; > unsigned char sha1[20]; > struct untracked_cache *untracked; > + uint64_t fsmonitor_last_update; This field being zero has more significance than just "we haven't got any update yet", right? The way I am reading the code is that setting it 0 is a way to signal that fsmon has been inactivated. It also made me wonder if add_fsmonitor() that silently returns without doing anything when this field is already non-zero is a bug (in other words, I couldn't tell what the right answer would be to a question "shouldn't the caller be avoiding duplicate calls?"). > diff --git a/fsmonitor.c b/fsmonitor.c > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000000..b8b2d88fe1 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/fsmonitor.c > ... This part was a pleasant read. Thanks.