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T. R. Bernstein c037302c01 Report the directories a growing tree could not watch
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Extending an automatically watched tree to a new directory swallowed
every error, so a reached watch limit or an unreadable directory left
part of the tree unwatched without any sign. No call of the consumer is
running at that moment, so the failures now arrive in the event stream
as InotifyEvent.watchFailed, after the event that triggered the
extension. The library watches what it can first: a reached limit ends
the attempt, an unreadable directory is skipped with its subtree, and a
directory that vanished in between is not reported.

The buffer now carries the library's own events next to the kernel's,
which keeps them in order and hides the stream's element type. The
test runner drops root's DAC capabilities so that an unreadable
directory can be tested.
2026-09-19 00:56:31 +02:00
T. R. Bernstein 8af25be549 Exclude items by shell pattern as well as by name
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Patterns such as `.*` or `@*` are matched against an item's own name
with `fnmatch`, in the same places as excluded names: resolving a
tree, extending a watch to a directory that appears later, and
delivering events. Dependents that prune large trees can now skip
whole families of directories without listing each name.
2026-09-16 11:21:45 +02:00
T. R. Bernstein 134034f3ea Watch directories moved into the tree and report their content
Automatic subtree watching only reacted to `CREATE`, so a directory
moved in from elsewhere stayed unwatched. It is now handled like a
created one. Items that already exist in such a directory never
produce kernel events; they are reported with the same event kind
and `synthesized` set to `true`, so consumers can treat them as
newly appeared.
2026-09-13 23:13:32 +02:00
T. R. Bernstein e6ed232087 Drop watches of directories that leave the tree
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.
2026-09-13 23:10:30 +02:00
T. R. Bernstein 134e4e152d Implement watch exclusion lists
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Allow exclusion of directories when watching recursively.
2026-03-15 22:46:59 +01:00
T. R. Bernstein ffac6d17a5 Implement auto subtree watching of a directory
Allow recursively watching a directory while adding newly created
subdirectories to the inotify watch list.
2026-03-12 12:04:08 +01:00
T. R. Bernstein b41b82bd0f Implement recursive watching of a directory 2026-03-12 10:36:12 +01:00