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fswatch
is a file change monitor that receives notifications
when the contents of the specified files or directories are modified.
fswatch
interacts with the operating system using a
monitor. Currently, the following kinds of monitors are
available:
ReadDirectoryChangesW
function.
stat()
function can be used.
fswatch
should build and work correctly on any system
shipping either of the aforementioned APIs.
fswatch
AuthorsAlan DIPERT wrote the first implementation of fswatch
in 2009. This version ran exclusively on Apple OS X and relied on the
FSEvents API to get change events from the OS.
At the end of 2013 Enrico M. CRISOSTOMO wrote fsw
aiming at providing not only a drop-in replacement for
fswatch
, but also a tool portable across as many
operating systems as possible. Besides adding support to other
operating systems, fsw
introduced new features such as
inclusion and exclusion filters and customizable output formats.
In April 2014 Alan and Enrico, in the best interest of users of either
fswatch
and fsw
, agreed on merging the two
programs together. At the same time, Enrico was taking over
fswatch
as a maintainer. As a consequence, development of
fswatch
has continued on its main repository while the
fsw
repository has been frozen.
If you find problems or have suggestions about this program or this
manual, please report them as new issues in the official GitHub
repository of fswatch
at
https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch.
Please, read the CONTRIBUTING.md file for detailed instructions
on how to contribute to fswatch
.
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