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Drop watches of directories that leave the tree

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A directory moved out of a watched tree kept its kernel watches, so
later changes inside it were reported under the old path. Its
watches and those of its subdirectories are now removed on
`MOVED_FROM`. Watches the kernel reports as `IGNORED` are forgotten
as well, so a reused descriptor number cannot map to a stale path.
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T. R. Bernstein
2026-09-13 23:10:30 +02:00
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@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ try await inotify.addWatchWithAutomaticSubtreeWatching(
This is the most convenient option when you need full coverage of a growing directory tree.
When a watched directory is moved out of the tree, the watches on it and on its subdirectories are removed, so no events are reported under the stale path.
## Excluding Items
You can tell the `Inotify` actor to ignore certain file or directory names. Excluded names are skipped during recursive directory resolution (so no watch is installed on them) and silently dropped from the event stream: