[DAEMON-6] appcd: Filesystem watcher
GitHub Issue | n/a |
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Type | New Feature |
Priority | High |
Status | Resolved |
Resolution | Fixed |
Resolution Date | 2016-05-12T15:29:18.000+0000 |
Affected Version/s | n/a |
Fix Version/s | n/a |
Components | node-appc |
Labels | n/a |
Reporter | Chris Barber |
Assignee | Chris Barber |
Created | 2016-05-07T06:27:59.000+0000 |
Updated | 2017-06-19T15:46:38.000+0000 |
Description
androidlib, ioslib, jdklib, and windowslib need a filesystem monitoring library that can be notified when a specific path changes.
Node has a built-in
fs.watch()
function which works fine on Linux and Windows, but doesn't work well on OS X where it doesn't report the correct file path. This can be fixed by using the fsevents
module.
The chokidar
module comes close to solving this need, but I discovered two blocking bugs: one with watching paths that do not exist and one with nested paths. It also currently has 39 open issues, some of which are a little scary sounding. Additionally, chokidar
uses readdirp
which apparently has performance issues due to all of the file stating.
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