jeffhostetler

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   by jeffhostetler 4y ago

   I'm using ReadDirectoryChangesW() to read a filtered stream of events from the USN journal. I've not noticed any reliability problems. Technically, the kernel API can always drop events, but whether that is a kernel can't k
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   by jeffhostetler 4y ago

   You might give the new fsmonitor a try. It does not lock any files on the disk. It does have a single handle to the worktree root directory to listen for events. But even that is not exclusive. And it CWD's out of the tree during i
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   by jeffhostetler 4y ago

   Thanks! And yes, I'll have a blog post on it. It is currently scheduled to appear on Wednesday on the GitHub blog. The new `git fsmonitor--daemon` is mostly shared code but with custom "backends" for each platform hidden a