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e-dant / watcher

Filesystem watcher. Works anywhere. Simple, efficient and friendly.
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`README.md` Priorities #3

Closed e-dant closed 1 year ago

e-dant commented 1 year ago

The readme offers Watcher's design goals, sure, but it doesn't offer the non-goals.

We should add a section on the things that Watcher is not interested in solving (at least at the moment). These are the OS-level caveats to certain system APIs. For inotify, that's events potentially disappearing or being duplicated. For std::filesystem, there are some places where UB might happen, although I haven't looked into exactly when they occur.

These are important caveats that deserve a place in the readme but require more research.

e-dant commented 1 year ago

Discussion and work on this issue (and more) will be found here: https://github.com/e-dant/watcher/issues/10