"Eric DeCosta via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Goal is to deliver fsmonitor for Linux that is on par with fsmonitor for > Windows and Mac OS. > > This patch set builds upon previous work for done for Windows and Mac OS > (first 6 patches) to implement a fsmonitor back-end for Linux based on the > Linux inotify API. inotify differs significantly from the equivalent Windows > and Mac OS APIs in that a watch must be registered for every directory of > interest (rather than a singular watch at the root of the directory tree) > and special care must be taken to handle directory renames correctly. I am seeing occasional breakages of t7527.16 that does not seem to reproduce reliably.
