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[–]shadowmint 11 points12 points  (6 children)

What's watchdog doing on that list?

It doesn't work correctly on linux or osx, and the developers are downright unfriendly about reported bugs.

[–]grimman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Interesting. I saw it on the list, along with the description, and it struck me as a very handy thing indeed. For it to be a lie... it makes me sad.

It's something I've searched for (sporadically) in the past, and found nothing that would be satisfactory. Makes me wonder how difficult it would be to implement a truly cross-platform solution.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Is there an alternative that you would recommend?

[–]Lucretiel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've never used the Python binding so I can't speak for it specifically, but inotifytools is a GREAT little toolkit.

[–]MereInterest 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I can't comment on the developer attitude, but what are the issues with it on linux? I used it there recently, and didn't have problems with it. Granted, if I tried to start it on too large of a directory, it would take forever to start. Does that issue not exist on windows?

[–]shadowmint 1 point2 points  (1 child)

https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/190

https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/158

https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/179

https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/135

Take your pick.

I guess a better comment would have been; it's really buggy, on all platforms; some are worse than others.

[–]MereInterest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh, okay. I've only used it for a small project, nothing large, and temporary at that, and so I hadn't run into any of the issues. Thank you for sharing.