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		rasz on Oct 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Filesystem Watcher Wait, it doesnt hook the OS file handling routines? it actually manually rescans the filesystem?

e-dant on Oct 18, 2022 [–]

It does one or the other. There are concerns about OS filesystem event hooks.

The current solution isn’t ideal, and is being addressed here: https://github.com/e-dant/watcher/issues/10

mikulas_florek on Oct 18, 2022 | [–]

not on windows (only platform I checked/care about)

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