Re: How to monitor a directory in FreeBSD?

On 8/13/22 21:19, Michał Górny wrote:
> 
> I'm afraid I'm going to be a bit of spoilsport but please bear in mind
> that inotify -- at least on Linux -- is not 100% reliable (or at least
> it wasn't the last time I've used it).  In general, it's a great
> optimization but your program also needs to have fallback logic to
> periodically check for changes that weren't reported.
> 

Yeah yeah, I read inotify(7), I know that the queue can overflow, events 
can be lost, it can collapse events when they are identical, there are 
limits, the filesystem might not support inotify, the files or the 
monitored directory itself could be symlinks or can have a symlink in 
its path which can be broken, can cycle and can cause security 
vulnerabilities, there can be mountpoints involved which behave 
differently than everything else, there can be permission issues, some 
syscalls can bypass some monitoring, that handling renaming of files and 
directories is hell...