fsw

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Overview

Package fsw wraps filesystem watchers to ensure the best experience on the operating system that vidar was built for. For example, fsnotify is used on most systems; but on darwin, where the open file limits are low and watchers use up open files, we instead use a polling watcher.

Index

• type Event
• type Op
• type Watcher
  • func New() (Watcher, error)

Types

type Event

type Event struct {
	Path string
	Op   Op
}

type Op

type Op uint32

const (
	Create Op = 1 << iota
	Write
	Remove
	Rename
	Chmod
)

type Watcher

type Watcher interface {
	Add(name string) error
	Remove(name string) error
	RemoveAll() error
	Close() error
	Next() (Event, error)
}

func New

func New() (Watcher, error)